ProjectTool & visual studio: /DELAYLOAD

BruceC

Re: ProjectTool & visual studio: /DELAYLOAD

I tried

AdditionalLinkOptions=/DELAYLOAD:"xxx.dll"

And as FilipM said, the option gets added under

Configuration Properties-> Linker ->All Options->Additional Options

and, I still got link error:

Error	LNK2019	unresolved external symbol __HrLoadAllImportsForDll referenced in function  "......................."

But if I add xxx.dll to

Configuration Properties-> Linker ->All Options->Delay Loaded DLLs

The link error disappears.

Configuration Properties->linker->Command Line looks the same except that /DELAYLOAD:"xxx.dll" is at the end of All Options if xxx.dll is added to Configuration Properties-> Linker ->All Options->Delay Loaded DLLs, but it will be at the Additional Options if it is added by AdditionalLinkOptions=/DELAYLOAD:"xxx.dll"

Can you please let me know how to solve this problem? Thanks.
I'm running

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2019
Version 16.11.31

ferdinand

Hey @BruceC,

thank you for reaching out to us. If you follow the thread from @Manuel there closely, you will see that he recommends the syntax:

AdditionalLinkOptions=%(AdditionalOptions) /DELAYLOAD:"mydll.dll"

But he does not seem to be so sure if that actually will work (and I also myself am not sure how that explicit mention of the insertion point %(AdditionalOptions) is supposed to work here, must be some magic only the project tool devs are aware of.

Just like in the other case, you can alternatively also just modify the files the project tools uses to assemble a Visual Studio project. But you should be aware that doing that is out of scope of support.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

BruceC

Thanks for the reply, @ferdinand.

I can confirm that below syntax doesn't work. I still get the same error.

AdditionalLinkOptions=%(AdditionalOptions) /DELAYLOAD:"mydll.dll"

I'll see what alternatives I could use.