LNK2019 - visual studio 2013 - error despite having defined all symbols

Question

I have a Win32 Console Application project in Visual Studio 2013. I've set up the project to work with OpenCV 2.4.9. I'm also using PGRFlyCapture SDK (http://ww2.ptgrey.com/sdk/flycap), so I have configured the paths for include,bin,lib for this sdk.

There's a header file that I've created, along with a .cpp file to define all the function prototypes declared in the header file. Despite that, I'm getting the LNK2019 unresolved external symbol error.

I need help getting rid of these LNK2019 errors.
Would like a link to the PGRFlyCapture SDK as I didn't find it, maybe I've configured the SDK with the project in Visual Studio incorrectly.

Posting the error list for reference.

Error   21  error LNK1120: 20 unresolved externals  C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\Debug\VideoGrabber_V3.exe VideoGrabber_V3
Error   1   error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "const FlyCapture2::CameraBase::`vftable'" (??_7CameraBase@FlyCapture2@@6B@)  C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\FlyCapture2GUId_v120.exp  VideoGrabber_V3
Error   13  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIFileCreateStreamW@12 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::open(char const *,int,int,int,double)" (?open@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPBDHHHN@Z)    C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   9   error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIFileExit@0 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::close(void)" (?close@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NXZ)  C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   12  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIFileGetStream@16 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::open(char *)" (?open@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPAD@Z) C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   8   error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIFileInit@0 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::open(char *)" (?open@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPAD@Z)   C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   11  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIFileOpenW@16 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::open(char *)" (?open@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPAD@Z) C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   10  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIFileRelease@4 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::close(void)" (?close@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NXZ)   C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   20  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIMakeCompressedStream@16 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::open(char const *,int,int,int,double)" (?open@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPBDHHHN@Z) C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   15  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIStreamInfoW@12 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::open(char *)" (?open@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPAD@Z)   C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   18  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIStreamRead@28 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::readNextFrame(unsigned char *,bool)" (?readNextFrame@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPAE_N@Z)  C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   16  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIStreamReadFormat@16 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::open(char *)" (?open@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPAD@Z)  C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   14  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIStreamRelease@4 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::close(void)" (?close@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NXZ) C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   17  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIStreamSetFormat@16 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::open(char const *,int,int,int,double)" (?open@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPBDHHHN@Z)  C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   19  error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _AVIStreamWrite@32 referenced in function "public: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::appendBMP(char const *)" (?appendBMP@PGRAviFile@@QAE_NPBD@Z)   C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   6   error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ICClose@4 referenced in function "public: int __thiscall PGRAviFile::enumerateCompressors(int,int,int,struct ICINFO *,int)" (?enumerateCompressors@PGRAviFile@@QAEHHHHPAUICINFO@@H@Z)    C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   4   error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ICGetInfo@12 referenced in function "public: int __thiscall PGRAviFile::enumerateCompressors(int,int,int,struct ICINFO *,int)" (?enumerateCompressors@PGRAviFile@@QAEHHHHPAUICINFO@@H@Z) C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   3   error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ICInfo@12 referenced in function "public: int __thiscall PGRAviFile::enumerateCompressors(int,int,int,struct ICINFO *,int)" (?enumerateCompressors@PGRAviFile@@QAEHHHHPAUICINFO@@H@Z)    C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   5   error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ICOpen@12 referenced in function "public: int __thiscall PGRAviFile::enumerateCompressors(int,int,int,struct ICINFO *,int)" (?enumerateCompressors@PGRAviFile@@QAEHHHHPAUICINFO@@H@Z)    C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   7   error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ICSendMessage@16 referenced in function "public: int __thiscall PGRAviFile::enumerateCompressors(int,int,int,struct ICINFO *,int)" (?enumerateCompressors@PGRAviFile@@QAEHHHHPAUICINFO@@H@Z) C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3
Error   2   error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _VideoForWindowsVersion@0 referenced in function "private: bool __thiscall PGRAviFile::checkVFWVersion(void)" (?checkVFWVersion@PGRAviFile@@AAE_NXZ)  C:\Users\jtower\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\VideoGrabber_V3\VideoGrabber_V3\PGRAviFile.obj    VideoGrabber_V3

Link with `Vfw32.lib` - that should take care of most of these. Can't help with `FlyCapture2::CameraBase` one. — Igor Tandetnik, Sep 24 '14 at 01:43
It comes with Windows SDK, which should be part of Visual Studio installation. Just mention it under Project > Properties > Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies. — Igor Tandetnik, Sep 24 '14 at 16:46
Thanks! I did a little digging around and found that WindowsSDK was not installed on my system. Installed it and linked Vfw32.lib to my project. All errors except the `FlyCapture2::CameraBase` have been resolved. — Chai Nadig, Sep 24 '14 at 16:57
@IgorTandetnik, I would accept your solution as answer if you post it as an answer. — Chai Nadig, Oct 09 '14 at 18:00
How are you able to use PGRFlyCapture SDK with VS2013? When I downloaded the SDK (version 2.7.3.18, x86 and x64), there were only binaries for VS2012 and below. — may5694, Apr 14 '15 at 00:52

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 10 '15 at 06:46

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I did a little digging around and found that WindowsSDK was not installed on my system. Installed it and linked Vfw32.lib to my project. All LNK2019 errors got resolved.

answered Aug 10 '15 at 06:46

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