title: Linking a .lib library to a project in Visual Studio
body: <p>Somehow, even after going through a lot of materials, I could not understand one thing. I have a c++ library project in Visual Studio 2013. When I build it, it creates *.lib file. Now, there is another project where I need to link the .lib file. I created a folder called <code>lib</code>, dumped the .lib file in there and set the path of the <code>lib</code> folder to <code>Properties-&gt;Linker-&gt;General-&gt;Additional Library Directories</code>. Next I added the library file name <code>*.lib</code> in <code>Properties-&gt;Linker-&gt;Input-&gt;Additional Dependencies</code>. Now, building the project throws huge list of linker errors with message <code>unresolved external symbol ...</code>. What is that I need to do more for linking the library? </p>