Linking msvcrt.lib cannot find __imp__InterlockedCompareExchange@12

Question

I am trying to solve following linking error for past few days, But I have no clue yet. VS and window sdk installation I guess is fine because there are 100's other projects that are being built successfully. What exactly I have done is; I have made a VC console project and imported legacy code in it and linked it with lot of static libraries. Code has _tmain routine in it and executes on console, i know that because I have the executable some previous build. Please let me know where should I look into

------ Build started: Project: s5kcgm2, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
Linking...
MSVCRT.lib(crtexe.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__InterlockedCompareExchange@12
C:\Ti\convert\s5kcgm\src\lib\Release\s5kcgm2.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Build log was saved at "file://c:\Ti\convert\s5kcgm\src\image\s5kcgm2\Release\BuildLog.htm"
s5kcgm2 - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 8 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Answer 1

You need to link with kernel32.lib (see the "Library" entry at the bottom of the documentation).