Linking gRPC (C++) into my .dll

[scha...@artandlogic.com]

Need to write a Windows .dll for a project.  Within my dll, I need to use protobufs and grpc to get some data.  Having a really hard time linking everything together due to several errors I cannot seem to fix.

Application and some of the other code I'm using are compiled with /MD, not /MT.

Originally, I had installed gRPC like this:

vcpkg.exe install zlib:x64-windows-static

vcpkg.exe install c-ares:x64-windows-static

vcpkg.exe install openssl:x64-windows-static

vcpkg.exe install protobuf[zlib]:x64-windows-static

vcpkg.exe install grpc:x64-windows-static

But that seems to compile with /MT, and the rest of the code and the application is built with /MD, so I tried to switch to this:

vcpkg.exe install zlib:x64-windows

vcpkg.exe install c-ares:x64-windows

vcpkg.exe install openssl:x64-windows

vcpkg.exe install protobuf[zlib]:x64-windows

vcpkg.exe install grpc:x64-windows

Instead of giving me .libs, this gave me .dll files.

Now I'm trying to build grpc directly like this:

git clone -b v1.20.0 https://github.com/grpc/grpc

cd grpc

git submodule update --init

mkdir build64

cd build64

cmake ..

Once I loaded the .sln file and built it in VisualStudio, I think this gave me over 100 .lib files, some of which also includes protobuffers.  Do I add all 100+ .lib files into my project?  I tried adding them individually to fix obvious unresolved externals, but I'm thinking I must be going about this the wrong way and could use some hints.

Thanks,

Stéphane

[Nicolas Noble]

Getting some sense of the errors you're getting would be useful.

I would suggest first trying to get a normal .exe running, which can then be something you adapt to your specific usage case.