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

My issue was that in the projects Properties>C/C++>CommandLine, I had specfied the switch incorrectly. That is instead of writting /D_HASHING_BUILD_DLL I had written /D_Hashing_BUILD_DLL.

Side note:
This is how I build my DLL/Lib files in Visual studio : (and my Hashing.h looks like this: )

#ifndef HASHING_H
#define HASHING_H

/* If we are we on Windows, we want a single define for it.*/
#if !defined(_WIN32) && (defined(__WIN32__) || defined(WIN32) || defined(__MINGW32__))
#define _WIN32
#endif /* _WIN32 */

#if defined(_WIN32) && defined(_HASHING_BUILD_DLL)
/* We are building Hashing as a Win32 DLL */
#define HASHING_API __declspec(dllexport)
#elif defined(_WIN32) && defined(HASHING_DLL)
/* We are calling Hashing as a Win32 DLL */
#define HASHING_API __declspec(dllimport)
#elif defined(__GNUC__) && defined(_HASHING_BUILD_DLL)
/* We are building Hashing as a shared / dynamic library */
#define HASHING_API __attribute__((visibility("default")))
#else
/* We are building or calling HASHING as a static library */
#define HASHING_API
#endif

//your inlcudes

class HASHING_API MyClass
{
//...
};

#endif // !HASHING_H

and in the path I stated earlier, I just use the switch I defined here and there you go, the DLL is built just fine!