How can I use this library on visual studio? (I'm a beginner programmer.)

[CHAN HAENG Lee]

Nice to meet you. 

I've studied programming for 8 months.

While I was searching the tool which i need, I can find this PDFWriter.

After downloading header and lib files, I changed my project property of Visual studio.

  (e.g., FreeType.lib;LibTiff.lib;ZLib.lib;PDFWriter.lib;)

First, entered the header path on Include Directories

Second, entered the lib path on Library Directories

Third, entered lib name on the Additional Dependencies of Linker Input                                                                             

I copied test sample. And built it. 

But it generated lots of errors. like this:

How can i solve this? All errors are related to unresolve extern symbol.

I even changed the address of files not to generate errors, but I can't still run this program.

Did I omit some options to enable this library?

Please tell me how to deal with this problem.

Thank you..

[Gal Kahana]

Hi,

start here - https://github.com/galkahana/PDF-Writer/wiki/Building-and-running-samples#building-with-cmake

this page provides instructions on how to build and run the sample projects.

On PC it will create a visual studio solution that will, by default, generate static libs, that you can use in your own project.

you may want to learn a little bit about using static libs or dlls (which you can create instead) if you are not yet familiar with the concept.

Regards,

Gal.

[CHAN HAENG Lee]

I finally did it!!

after your reply, I retried to make the first pdf file through instructions on how to build and run again and again.

And I kept track of the instructions steadily. Even though I made visual project files through cmake, I couldn't still build my first pdf.

Because I didn't know that I need to use pdfwritertestplayground. 

many days have passed by, but I can now do the first build. Thank you.