Using a static library (.a) in Visual Studio Express 2013

Question

I am trying to call a function found in a static lib (xxx.a) from a Visual Studio Express 2013 project. (The static lib is the output of a C project, compiled in IAR workspace).

In my Visual Studio project I added the library folder location to the VC++ directories (both under include directories & library directories), and under linker->Input->additional dependencies I added the library itslef (xxx.a ).

When I compile the project, I get a linker error:

C3861 (identifier not found).

What am I missing? I am newbie as it comes to library usage, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2013 cannot read .a format static libraries. Even if it could, the static library is surely not linked against the same version of the C library as you're trying to build against.