I am trying to compile, in Visual Studio 2015, a DLL that I am making which acts as a C-compatible wrapper around some functionality from OpenVDB, making it usable in an existing C project. When I build, however, I get the following Linker Errors:
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: class std::shared_ptr<class std::basic_streambuf<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > > __thiscall openvdb::v4_0_1::io::MappedFile::createBuffer(void)const " (__imp_?createBuffer@MappedFile@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@QBE?AV?$shared_ptr@V?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@@std@@XZ) referenced in function "private: void __thiscall openvdb::v4_0_1::tree::LeafBuffer<float,3>::doLoad(void)const " (?doLoad@?$LeafBuffer@M$02@tree@v4_0_1@openvdb@@ABEXXZ)
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) class std::shared_ptr<class openvdb::v4_0_1::io::StreamMetadata> __cdecl openvdb::v4_0_1::io::getStreamMetadataPtr(class std::ios_base &)" (__imp_?getStreamMetadataPtr@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@YA?AV?$shared_ptr@VStreamMetadata@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@std@@AAVios_base@5@@Z) referenced in function "void __cdecl openvdb::v4_0_1::io::readCompressedValues<float,class openvdb::v4_0_1::util::NodeMask<3> >(class std::basic_istream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &,float *,unsigned int,class openvdb::v4_0_1::util::NodeMask<3> const &,bool)" (??$readCompressedValues@MV?$NodeMask@$02@util@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@YAXAAV?$basic_istream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@PAMIABV?$NodeMask@$02@util@12@_N@Z)
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) void __cdecl openvdb::v4_0_1::io::setStreamMetadataPtr(class std::ios_base &,class std::shared_ptr<class openvdb::v4_0_1::io::StreamMetadata> &,bool)" (__imp_?setStreamMetadataPtr@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@YAXAAVios_base@std@@AAV?$shared_ptr@VStreamMetadata@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@5@_N@Z) referenced in function "private: void __thiscall openvdb::v4_0_1::tree::LeafBuffer<float,3>::doLoad(void)const " (?doLoad@?$LeafBuffer@M$02@tree@v4_0_1@openvdb@@ABEXXZ)
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: static class std::shared_ptr<class openvdb::v4_0_1::math::Transform> __cdecl openvdb::v4_0_1::math::Transform::createLinearTransform(class openvdb::v4_0_1::math::Mat4<double> const &)" (__imp_?createLinearTransform@Transform@math@v4_0_1@openvdb@@SA?AV?$shared_ptr@VTransform@math@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@std@@ABV?$Mat4@N@234@@Z) referenced in function "public: static class std::shared_ptr<class openvdb::v4_0_1::math::Transform> __cdecl OpenVDB_c::LinearTransform(double,double,double,double,double,double,double,double,double,double,double,double,double,double,double,double)" (?LinearTransform@OpenVDB_c@@SA?AV?$shared_ptr@VTransform@math@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@std@@NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN@Z)
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: void __thiscall openvdb::v4_0_1::GridBase::setTransform(class std::shared_ptr<class openvdb::v4_0_1::math::Transform>)" (__imp_?setTransform@GridBase@v4_0_1@openvdb@@QAEXV?$shared_ptr@VTransform@math@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@std@@@Z) referenced in function __catch$?setGridTransform@OpenVDB_c@@QAE_NHV?$shared_ptr@VTransform@math@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@std@@@Z$0
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: class std::shared_ptr<class openvdb::v4_0_1::GridBase> __thiscall openvdb::v4_0_1::io::File::readGrid(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &)" (__imp_?readGrid@File@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@QAE?AV?$shared_ptr@VGridBase@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@std@@ABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@6@@Z) referenced in function "public: int __thiscall OpenVDB_c::readGrid(int,char *)" (?readGrid@OpenVDB_c@@QAEHHPAD@Z)
Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol "public: virtual class std::shared_ptr<class openvdb::v4_0_1::io::Archive> __thiscall openvdb::v4_0_1::io::File::copy(void)const " (?copy@File@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@UBE?AV?$shared_ptr@VArchive@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@std@@XZ)
Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol "public: virtual void __thiscall openvdb::v4_0_1::io::File::write(class std::vector<class std::shared_ptr<class openvdb::v4_0_1::GridBase const >,class std::allocator<class std::shared_ptr<class openvdb::v4_0_1::GridBase const > > > const &,class openvdb::v4_0_1::MetaMap const &)const " (?write@File@io@v4_0_1@openvdb@@UBEXABV?$vector@V?$shared_ptr@$$CBVGridBase@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@std@@V?$allocator@V?$shared_ptr@$$CBVGridBase@v4_0_1@openvdb@@@std@@@2@@std@@ABVMetaMap@34@@Z)
Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) private: static union half::uif const * const half::_toFloat" (__imp_?_toFloat@half@@0QBTuif@1@B) C:\Users\t00001657\documents\visual studio 2015\Projects\OVDBC\OVDBC\ovdbc.obj 1
OpenVDB and all of its dependencies are in the include folder, whose directory is added to additional include directories, and this is my current list of Additional Dependencies under the Linker options:
I can't seem to find any information on compiling with OpenVDB in Visual Studio that covers this kind of error, and am pretty stumped as to what I could be forgetting.
It turned out to be a combination of a couple problems:
In the end, all I needed to do was define OPENEXR_DLL, HALF_EXPORTS, and OPENVDB_3_ABI_COMPATIBLE, and switch the build option to /MDd.