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LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "mfc71.lib"

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Veeru

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Apr 7, 2007, 8:14:01 PM4/7/07
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HI

when I was building VS 6.0 projects I got the following error
"LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "mfc71.lib" "

My project is .dsp, I am using Visual Studio 6.0 to build the projects.

why it is refering mfc71.lib?

I also have Visual Studio 2003 installed in my machine.

I installed VS 2003 first for .Net projects, Now I have VS 6.0 projects.
Then I have installed VS 6.0 and start building, few of my projects were
failed to build because of the above error.

Can anyone please help me out to solve this issue.

Thanks inadvance.


Regards
Veeru

Ajay Kalra

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Apr 7, 2007, 9:41:26 PM4/7/07
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A dsp file will not have a reference to MFC7.1 lib. VS2003 and beyond use
the .sln file. I would do a clean build with VS6.0. Perhaps you have some
pre-compiled headers which are messed up.

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Tom Serface

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Apr 8, 2007, 12:20:38 AM4/8/07
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Did you accidentally open the project with 2003 and have it converted? Even
so, I'm not sure it would have changed the lib automatically.

Tom

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Ajay Kalra

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> Did you accidentally open the project with 2003 and have it converted?
Even
> so, I'm not sure it would have changed the lib automatically.


How can you open a .sln file in VS6?

Tom Serface

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Apr 8, 2007, 9:51:12 AM4/8/07
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You can't. I just wondered if he's opened the 6.0 project in 2003 and maybe
something got changed there.

Tom

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MrAsm

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Apr 8, 2007, 11:29:11 AM4/8/07
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On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 17:14:01 -0700, Veeru
<Ve...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>HI
>
>when I was building VS 6.0 projects I got the following error
>"LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "mfc71.lib" "

Hi,

maybe you're a building some code that is pointing to MFC7.1 DLL?
Maybe are you linking with some library (also 3rd party library) that
was built for MFC7.1?

MrAsm

Ajay Kalra

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Apr 8, 2007, 6:37:00 PM4/8/07
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> You can't. I just wondered if he's opened the 6.0 project in 2003 and
maybe
> something got changed there.

Even if it did get changed, OP cant open that in VS6. You cant go back
unless OP is mixing objs from various versions.

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