Build Succeeded, but no .lib file gets created

Question

I inherited a substantial amount of code, including a visual studio project that is supposed to (as best as I can tell) build a .lib file. Visual studio says \"... Generating C

Answer 1

I was exporting a class from the dll but had declared the class inline in .h file. The .cpp file was there but empty. This setup was causing the .lib file to be not generated.

I moved the implementation of functions to .cpp file and now lib file is generated.

This is in VS2019.