Help Needed: Explicit Toolkit DLL linking problem

Hi,
I'm using version 10.3.1. I was using implicit linking until now. But I want to link explicitly now onwards. I have defined "_XTPLIB_NOAUTOLINK" in preprocessor settings of project. Now I'm getting error as shown below:


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Error    23    error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: enum XTPPopupState __thiscall CXTPPopupControl::GetPopupState(void)const " (__imp_?GetPopupState@CXTPPopupControl@@QBE?AW4XTPPopupState@@XZ) referenced in function "long __cdecl PopUpNotify(unsigned int,long)" (?PopUpNotify@@YAJIJ@Z)
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I looked at all exported symbols/functions/classes using dumpbin utility provided with Visual Studio. It shows this function is exported as:


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6420 1913 003347DB ?GetPopupState@CXTPPopupControl@@QBE?AW4XTPPopupState@@XZ = @ILT+18390(?GetPopupState@CXTPPopupControl@@QBE?AW4XTPPopupState@@XZ)
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Only difference is __imp_ prepended in first:

__imp_?GetPopupState@CXTPPopupControl@@QBE?AW4XTPPopupState@@XZ

as comapared to exported one:

?GetPopupState@CXTPPopupControl@@QBE?AW4XTPPopupState@@XZ

Looks like compiler is still looking for import library. How can I fix this problem?

Oleg,

Yes. I did. That fixed compilation error. But when I start my app, even before creating app object, it goes into toolkit dll. Since I'm explicitly linking ,shouldn't it wait until I called LoadLibrary function. Look at call stack. Looks like it's going in DllMain() of toolkit dll.




I guess, it is still not linking explicitly. If you guys have any sample code, I would really appreciate that.

One more thing: My understanding was that lib file is not required when you link dll explicitly.

See this: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686944.aspx

Because the program uses run-time dynamic linking, it is not necessary to link the module with an import library for the DLL.