error LNK2005: ___xi_a already defined in MSVCRT.lib(cinitexe.obj)

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So in my project I am getting these link errors:

Error   1   error LNK2005: ___xi_a already defined in MSVCRT.lib(cinitexe.obj)  
Error   2   error LNK2005: ___xi_z already defined in MSVCRT.lib(cinitexe.obj)
Error   3   error LNK2005: ___xc_a already defined in MSVCRT.lib(cinitexe.obj)
Error   4   error LNK2005: ___xc_z already defined in MSVCRT.lib(cinitexe.obj)
Error   7   error LNK1169: one or more multiply defined symbols found

Now I remember getting these about a month back and through fiddling with additional dependencies and some other project properties I was able to get everything to compile (that's about all I remember). Now that I'm trying to convert my project to release mode I'm getting them again.

I have compared all the project properties from release to debug and made sure everything was the same except setting the runtime library to /MD instead of /MDd obviously. Both share all the same additional dependencies also.

Is there anything else I could be missing?

If you use 3rd party libraries make sure the use the same CRT as you are using. — drescherjm, Aug 16 '18 at 14:20
@drescherjm all of my libraries are using /MD for the release version — Connor Mote, Aug 16 '18 at 14:34
You are, somehow, linking the C runtime library twice. Pretty hard to do without generating additional linker warnings. Maybe different copies of msvcrt.lib, bit of a stretch, add the /VERBOSE linker option to see where stuff is coming from. — Hans Passant, Aug 16 '18 at 15:08

error LNK2005: ___xi_a already defined in MSVCRT.lib(cinitexe.obj)

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