How to include libraries in Visual Studio 2012

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I started with learning C   a few days ago and I would like to get some data to make it more funny  I found a powerful C   library called Unirest that can help me to get data from many APIs and after practice the basics     I don t know how to include libraries into my project  I fond some videos about how to do it so I just created libs folder  like i always do when I m programming in PHP  and I copied library files  After I included header file UNIRest h into my source and added the libs directory into VS  Directories option in Project Properties - Configuration Properties - VC  Directories  Everything is still OK  But when I opened the header file UNIRest h the problem appeared    import  UNIHTTPRequest h   import  UNIHTTPRequestWithBody h   import  HttpRequest UNISimpleRequest h   import  HttpRequest UNIBodyRequest h   import  HttpResponse UNIHTTPBinaryResponse h   import  HttpResponse UNIHTTPJsonResponse h   import  HttpResponse UNIHTTPStringResponse h    All of those macros are underlined and compilation failed with message   fatal error C1083  Cannot open type library file   libs unirest unihttprequest h   Error loading type library DLL    Could you please help me  Hope it s not just a stupid question because I tried to make it works whole afternoon

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In code level also  you could add your lib to the project using the compiler directives  pragma   example           pragma comment  lib   yourLibrary lib

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Typically you need to do 5 things to include a library in your project   1  Add  include statements necessary files with declarations interfaces  e g     include  library h    2  Add an include directory for the compiler to look into  -  Configuration Properties VC   Directories Include Directories  click and edit  add a new entry   3  Add a library directory for   lib files   -  project on top bar  properties Configuration Properties VC   Directories Library Directories  click and edit  add a new entry   4  Link the lib s   lib files  -  Configuration Properties Linker Input Additional Dependencies  e g   library lib   5  Place   dll files either   -  in the directory you ll be opening your final executable from or into Windows system32

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