Addon libraries and Visual Studio

visual studio
#1

I’m a bit stuck with Visual Studio updates for OF 0.9 for an addon.

The addon includes built libraries and I have added x64 versions and updated the directory layout and VS project files using the Project Generator. I include debug and release libraries side by side, which worked for the addon in OF 0.8, and still seems to work for other addons (eg ofxKinect packages libusb-win32 like this).

Now when I build a debug build the linker tries the release library first and throws errors and gives up. If I build a release build it works fine, and I can build debug builds if I remove the release libraries and regenerate the project file.

Does anyone with more experience of VS have any suggestions? The addon with updates so far is at https://github.com/bangnoise/ofxHapImage

#2

can you look at ofxOpenCV and maybe doing it the way the folder are there:

https://github.com/openframeworks/openFrameworks/tree/master/addons/ofxOpenCv/libs/opencv/lib/vs

(this is something we definitely should add to the config file but is not there yet)

relevant discussion:
https://github.com/openframeworks/openFrameworks/issues/4038#issuecomment-125853101

#3

Thanks - splitting into Debug/Release folders works. Mysterious that other addons seem to be able to have debug/release libraries side by side, but happy to have a solution.

#4

I think that was the old way of doing it (we were parsing the names and looking for a “d” at the end, but this is the new way… I still feel like the config file will be the best and happy to take a look at down the line.