IDA PRO 6.5 LNK1104 error

Question

I am green to IDA pro and any help would be appreciated!

my efforts: My end goal would be to write(compile) my own helloworld plugin which I also found in the IDASDK.

I am unable to accomplish that as I always get hit by a LNK1104 cannot open file xxx.plw error even after following the visual++ readme closely.

• I am using Idaq.exe on a 32 bit windows 7 pc
• Microsoft visual C++ 2013

any help would be appreciated thanks!

Answer 1

I managed to solve this by going to project > properties > configuration properties > general > platform toolset > (drop down) visual studio 2013 - windows XP(v120_xp)

hope this helps