WxWidgest application with Microsoft Visual Studio

[Gatti Gianluca]

Hello,

I am not able to build a very simple wxWidgets app (the HelloWorld example) with Microsoft Visual Studio compiler.

I followed the online documentation (https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.3.2/plat_msw_install.html#msw_build_apps_msvc), but I got this build error:

    

1>C:\wx\3.3.2\wxwidgets.props(111,5): error : wxWidgets libraries not found under "C:\wx\3.3.2\lib\vc{,,}_x64_{lib,dll}".


Can someone help me?
Thank you very much,

    Gianluca

[Maarten Bent]

Hi,

Are you use Visual Studio 2026?
I think wxwidgets.props from 3.3.2 does not support his version yet because the toolset versions in your error message are empty.
You can try replacing it with the latest version from: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/wxwidgets.props

And of course verify that the actual library files in wxDir/lib/vc14x_x64_dll (or similar) exists.
Either from building wxWidgets yourself, or from installing the prebuilt binaries.

Maarten

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[Gatti Gianluca]

Yes, I use VS2026, thank you!

Bu tnow I got another build error:

Thank you in advance for any suggestions,

Gianluca

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Hi, Are you use Visual Studio 2026? I think wxwidgets. props from 3. 3. 2 does not support his version yet because the toolset versions in your error message are empty. You can try replacing it with the latest version from: https: //github. com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/blob/master/wxwidgets. props

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[Gatti Gianluca]

Sorry, not consider the previous email: these are the error I got now

Thank you,

Gianluca

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[Gatti Gianluca]

To be clearer, this is the linker error:

1>MSVCRT.lib(exe_main.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol main
1>... : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

Thank you,

Gianluca

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Inviato: giovedì 2 luglio 2026 15:20

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 13:30:42 +0000 Gatti Gianluca wrote:

GG> 1>MSVCRT.lib(exe_main.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol main

Your project must use Windows subsystem and not the console one as it
currently does.

Regards,
VZ

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[Gatti Gianluca]

Hi Vadim,

I made it as it is written in the online documentation:

So what could be the problem?

Thank you in advance,

Gianluca

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[Igor Korot]

Hi,

Change “Subsystem”.

Thank you.

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[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 06:34:38 +0000 Gatti Gianluca wrote:

GG> I made it as it is written in the online documentation:

Are you sure about this? We explicitly say

> you need to change "Linker|System|SubSystem" in the project properties to
> "Windows", from the default "Console".

at https://docs.wxwidgets.org/latest/plat_msw_install.html#msw_build_apps_msvc
and I couldn't find any mention of console subsystem anywhere else. If you
did find it somewhere, please give the exact link so that we could fix it.

Regards,
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[Gatti Gianluca]

Thank you guys, I don't know why I made this mistake... 🙂

Now it works, thank you very much.

Gianluca

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On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 06:34:38 +0000 Gatti Gianluca wrote:

GG> I made it as it is written in the online documentation:

 Are you sure about this? We explicitly say

> you need to change "Linker|System|SubSystem" in the project properties to
> "Windows", from the default "Console".

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and I couldn't find any mention of console subsystem anywhere else. If you
did find it somewhere, please give the exact link so that we could fix it.

 Regards,
VZ

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