Error cannot open file 'mfc80u.lib' in Visual studio Community 2013

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I have an existing solution created with VS2005. And currently I am using Visual Studio Community 2013. When attempting to link, I get the following error:

Error 3 error LNK1104: cannot open file 'mfc80u.lib'

We do not specifically specify this as a dependency. But we have set "Use MFC in a Shared DLL" for Use of MFC.

There is mfc120u.lib in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\atlmfc\lib directory.

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1 Answers

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Apparently, the old VS2005 mfc runtime is still being linked. This is what you can do:

  • Check the libraries that are present in Configuration properties->Linker->Input
  • When that does not resolve the problem, open your .vcxproj file in a text editor and search for 'mfc80u.lib', and remove it.