Program builds in debug mode, but not in release mode

[mondaytofriday]

Right, I wrote a simple program which works with DTAPI library (used for reading a video stream from a Dektec device).

To use the library, I copied the DTAPI.h and the DTAPI.dll files into my project folder. When I build my program in Debug mode, it all works fine, but when I try to build it in the Release mode, I get the following error:

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'DTAPId.lib'

My guess is that I need to link the library to the project in some way? Could anyone please tell me how to do this?

[eidge]

Which IDE are you using?

(You should have diferent folders for release and debug files, try to find the release folder and copy the libraries to that folder as well.)

[mondaytofriday]

eidge,

Oh yes, sorry, forgot to mention :) I am using VS10.

I already copied the files into the Release folders (I have 2 of these for some reason, I copied the files into both of them), and also into my project root directory. It didn't make any difference :(

[andywestken]

For the release build, you prob need to link to DTAPI.lib

(the d at the end of the lib name used by the debug build is for "debug" -- libs often come in name/named pairs)

[mondaytofriday]

andywestken Thank you!!! My file indeed had a (d) on the end, so I found the file version without the d, copied it into my project root directory, and it worked! :)