Re: [gmime-devel] How to build and use gmime with visual studio express 2008

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On 05/06/2010 12:06 AM, Jochen De Smet wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use gmime in a vc++ project I'm working on.
>
> I downloaded the gmime-2.5.1 sources and opened the project under
> build/vs2008/gmime.vcproj. Building this project appears to succeed.
> It results in a gmime-2.6.lib file under build/vs2008/Debug (but no .dll
> as far as I can tell)
>
> Trying to build the first example from the tutorial fails horribly
> however.
> [snip]
>
> The test program is set to link against glib. Any test program that
> uses glib but not gmime builds fine.
> My glib version is 2.22.4
>
> Any idea what might be causing this and how to solve it ?

Unfortunately I have very little experience using VS to build libraries
and such, so I don't know what the problem is or how to fix it. You
probably know more about this than I do :-(

Jeff