Importing VStudio 2008 VC++ project into VStudio 2010 ....using MFC

Question

I am importing a Visual Studio 2008 VC++ project into VStudio 2010. I am using Object arx application, where I need to include their library files. The issue right now is that the library files from the previous version are getting included but not the current version, whereas if I open a new sample project in VStudio 2010, it should include the library files of the current version.....

Any help regarding the same will be highly appreciated....

Answer 1

You can't safely link a Visual Studio application to libraries built with a different compiler version. Such attempts always lead to a lot of conflicts and mismatches between different versions of system libraries that both your application and external library depend on.

So, the solution for your problem would be to get a set of ObjectARX library binaries built with Visual Studio 2010. Or rebuild them from source, if it is available.

Also beware of building with the same compiler version, but different options (Multithreaded/Single-Threaded runtime, Debug/Release, static/DLL runtime, iterator debugging level for STL, etc). Such mismatches don't always lead to link-time failures (VS2010 improved its checks a bit, though), but are very likely to cause mysterious crashes in runtime.