I heard that Nuget builds project easier without any configuration.

So, I am trying to add pthreads in my project from Nuget

(Actually I am using windows 10 x64 Visual studio 2017, C language, and my friends use linux OS)

I just search pthreads in Nuget package, click "install" button

But, my project compiles well but fatal error LNK1120 called.

Is there any more configuration after install pthreads from nuget?

• The reason why I ask this simple question in stackoverflow is that, there is no more steps in Microsoft official guides.

Is there any more configuration after install pthreads from nuget?

Using Nuget format to install pthread into C++ projects is quite simple and will not manually configure include Directories and additional Dependencies address any more.

But pthread nuget package in VS has a drawback that it does not fully inherit pthread class library. It lost a file called pthreadvc2.lib. You can try my following suggestions to configure it without any settings in project properties.

Solution

1) download pthread-w32-2-9-1-release.zip from this link.

2) unpack this file and then copy pthreadVC2.lib from the file(pthreads-w32-2-9-1-release\Pre-built.2\lib\x86 or x64) into

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\xxxxx\VC\Tools\MSVC\xxxx.xx.xxxx\lib\x86 or x64.

Note that you should copy the related lib into the related folder, x86 pthreadVC2.lib into x86 folder, x64 pthreadVC2.lib into x64 folder.

3) then add this into your cpp file:

#pragma comment(lib,"pthreadVC2.lib")

Then it will work as expected without any errors.