The procedure entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library - looking in wrong DLL

Question

When building for a specific configuration, my program seems to be looking for specific functions in the wrong DLL. These functions are defined in different DLLs, and used i

Answer 1

This turned out to be caused by vlc being built with /OPT:NOREF while my project was using /OPT:REF https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=98097