Link against a 3rd-party library with Visual Studio

Question

I\'m trying to create a .dll with Visual Studios 2013. The project includes libpq functionality.

Per other stackoverflow posts, and other sources I\'ve found on the

Answer 1

I've successfully compiled the sample program by setting these project properties:

• Add \include and \lib to VC++ Directories->Include and ->Library, correspondingly
• Add libpq.lib to Linker->Input->Additional dependencies

This is the standard way to reference 3rd-party libs. It's just that they recommend using environment variables for their "base dirs" to avoid patching the project when it's under a VCS.

• To be able to run the app from VS (both with and without debugging), I also specified PATH=%PATH%;\bin in Debugging->Environment since this dir isn't in PATH on my system.