Help compiling sample adsi code from MSPress
Hi
I am a complete newbie to programming and would like to try and learn VC++ with the intention of writing small speedy apps specifically for AD.
For kicks I tried compiling the code available athttp://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/4477d.asp.
Basically I created a new win32 console application project as an empty project. I then added a new .cpp file with the code copied from the above link. I have installed VC++ express and the R2 SDK and pointed VC++ at the SDK as per instructions availablehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/default.aspx.
. However when I try to start debugging it fails with the errors below.
ad.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _FreeADsMem@4 referenced in function _main
ad.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ADsGetObject@12
referenced in function _main
ad.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IDirectoryObject
C:\Documents and Settings\go dasa\My Documents\Visual Studio
2005\Projects\test\Debug\test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals
I would appreciate if you could explain why the code above doesnt compile.
TIA
Godasa
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Godasa] at [2007-12-21]
Thank you so much! I was wondering how I would know which libs I need to link the project to. So I looked up freeadsmem, adsgetobject and idirectoryobject. All of them are documented as require activeds.dll. So I just added activeds.lib and tried building and it fails with.
Build started: Project: test, Configuration: Debug Win32
Linking...
ad.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IDirectoryObject
C:\Documents and Settings\go dasa\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\test\Debug\test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
However if I add adsiid.lib it build correctly. Could you explain how one identifies which libs he needs to link to a project?
TIA
I was wondering how I would know which libs I need to link the project to. So I looked up freeadsmem, adsgetobject and idirectoryobject. All of them are documented as require activeds.dll. So I just added activeds.lib and tried building and it fails with.
Build started: Project: test, Configuration: Debug Win32
Linking...
ad.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IDirectoryObject
C:\Documents and Settings\go dasa\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\test\Debug\test.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
However if I add adsiid.lib it build correctly. Could you explain how one identifies which libs he needs to link to a project?
TIA
