[Quantlib-dev] QuantLib Xll compilation / Linker error

[JeJu83 . <jen...@go...>]

Hi all,

first of all thanks for providing the community with QuantLib. I spend many
great hours having fun with the library.

Lately I started creating a .xll, which is based upon a modified version of
QuantLib. If I compile some of my routines in visual studio 2012 as a
test.exe, everything runs perfectly well.

Unfortunately if I try to compile the same routines as .xll, I come up with
the following linker error.

1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'QuantLib-vc110-mt-sgd.lib'

After doing some research on the net, I encountered as a possible source of
that error, that QuantLib could be built in release mode and the xll is
instead built in debug mode. Then the mismatch of these modes causes the
linker error.

So I tried a few combinations:

The lib version of my QuantLib on hard drive is 'QuantLib-vc110-mt-gd.lib'

Compilation of my xll project in debug mode => linker is looking for
'QuantLib-vc110-mt-sgd.lib'

Compilation of my xll project in release mode => linker is looking for
'QuantLib-vc110-mt-s.lib'

As you can see in any case there is no match at all.

Honestly I am bit surprised by the problem and compared all my project
properties to a running quantlib example, which compiles as an .exe, but I
don't have a clue yet.


In addition I alignedthe properties between QuantLib

( cf C/C++/Code Generation/Runtime Library = /MDd)

and my little xll project. In doing so LNK1104 does not pop up again, but
just another bunch of linker errors (e.g.




xll.lib(dllmain.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for
'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MTd_StaticDebug' doesn't match value
'MDd_DynamicDebug' in function.obj


Is there a simple solution to the problem(, which does not involve
rebuilding the whole QuantLib in order to get the right lib name)?

Many thanks,

Jens