lnk2005

Linker errors in Visual C++ LNK2005, LNK2019 - not sure why

I'm trying to build code from the nVidia 9.5 SDK but I get the following linker errors: >1>NV_D3DCommonDX9U.lib(NV_StringFuncs.obj) : error LNK2005: "class std::basic_istream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > & __cdecl std::getline<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >(class std::basic_istream<char,struct st...

error LNK2005: new and delete already defined in LIBCMTD.lib(new.obj)

Hi All, I have a Visual studio 2005 solution that has two projects. One is a static library and the other is a executable used to test the features in the static library. The static library uses MFC. I got the following errors when I built the solution. uafxcwd.lib(afxmem.obj) : error LNK2005: "void * __cdecl operator new(unsigned int...

How to avoid "error LNK2005:" (already defined stdlib functions) when compiling libpng with Microsoft Visual Studio '08?

(Why I am trying to do this: I have had no luck in using the pre-built binaries for libpng on Windows (despite many hours of trial and error), and therefore am now trying to compile it myself. I found this helpful blog post concerning this, complete with a Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 project file, but unfortunately have still not been a...

Local classes inside inline non-member function produces LNK2005 with MSVC2005

Apparently, MSVC2005 fails to inline local classes' member functions which leads to LNK2005. I'm facing this LNK2005 error when compiling the following: common.h content: inline void wait_what() { struct wtf { void ffffuuu() {} } local; } foo.cpp content: #include "common.h" void foo() { wait_what(); } bar.cpp conte...

log4cxx Linking error - utf8 flag enabled

Hello, I'm working on Windows XP, VS2005. In addition I'm using log4cxx and it worked perfect for me. One day we decided to add Unicode support (UTF-8, cause we using utf-8 in our code base) to the logger. We found that we should change only two flags to make it work with unicode: LOG4CXX_LOGCHAR_IS_UTF8 1 (instead of 0, in log4cxx.h) ...

Linker problem in Release when trying to add GLUI library to project

Hi! I try to add the GLUI library to my project. Compiling in Debug mode runs fine. But if I compile in Release, it gives me a bunch of LNK2005 errors saying things like: error LNK2005: _realloc already defined in Libcmt.lib(realloc.obj) ok - i already got some similar Linker problems before because I use both CRT and MFC in my app b...