How to add additional libraries to Visual Studio project

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Allergro is an open souce C   addon library for graphics manipulation  How do I add this library to my compiler   The instructions don t work for me as I have Windows 7  I don t know if the OS matters  I have the Visual Studio Express Edition  The library is a  dll file  How do I add it to my projects

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This description is very vague  What did you try  and how did it fail   To include a library with your project  you have to include it in the modules passed to the linker  The exact steps to do this depend on the tools you are using  That part has nothing to do with the OS   Now  if you are successfully compiling the library into your app and it doesn t run  that COULD be related to the OS

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Add  pragma comment lib   Your library name here   to your source

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For Visual Studio you ll want to right click on your project in the solution explorer and then click on Properties     Next open Configuration Properties and then Linker   Now you want to add the folder you have the Allegro libraries in to Additional Library Directories   Linker -  Input you ll add the actual library files under Additional Dependencies   For the Header Files you ll also want to include their directories under C C    -  Additional Include Directories   If there is a dll have a copy of it in your main project folder  and done   I would recommend putting the Allegro files in the your project folder and then using local references in for the library and header directories     Doing this will allow you to run the application on other computers without having to install Allergo on the other computer   This was written for Visual Studio 2008   For 2010 it should be roughly the same

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Without knowing your compiler  no one can give you specific  step by step instructions  but the basic procedure is as follows    Specify the path which should be searched in order to find the actual library  usually under Library Search Paths  Library Directories  etc  in the properties page  Under linker options  specify the actual name of the library   In VS  you would write Allegro lib  or whatever it is   on Linux you usually just write Allegro  prefixes suffixes are added automatically in most cases    This is usually under  Libraries- Input   just  Libraries   or something similar  Ensure that you have included the headers for the library and make sure that they can be found  similar process to that listed in step  1 and  2    If it is a static library  you should be good  if it s a DLL  you need to copy it in your project  Mash the build button

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