title: How Can I Fix This LNK1104 Error in Visual Studio?
body: <p>First off, allow me to give you some background. I'm attempting to emulate a game from my childhood. A lot of work has been done with respect to <a href="https://github.com/VanaDev/Vana" rel="nofollow noreferrer">emulating said game</a>, and I've made some decent progress through the windows setup guide that can be found <a href="https://github.com/VanaDev/Vana/wiki/Windows-setup-guide" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here.</a>
  I recommend taking a look at that first, because knowing the prior steps I've done will probably help in answering this.</p>
  <p>Currently I'm on step 10, building the Vana solution. When I build it in Visual Studio 2019, I encounter 3 errors. The login, channel, and world server projects cannot open “libmysql.lib”. The output is as follows:</p>
  <p><code>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libmysql.lib'</code></p>
  <p>And under the error list it reads:</p>
  <p><code>LNK1104    cannot open file 'libmysql.lib'</code></p>
  <p>It’s not telling me why it cannot open it, it just says that it can’t open it. It’s not giving me any location, or much clues as to what exactly I should do. I found “libmysql.lib” within the MySQL server community 8 folder and I put the file within the SQL folder in the “LazurBeemz” directory, but got the same error.</p>
  <p>I then tried putting it into the MySQL server 5.0 folder because that’s where I pointed the “LazurBeemz” pack to, unfortunately I got the same exact errors. Honestly I have no idea where exactly I should put it or why I’m getting these errors. It’s beyond me. I checked the specifics of the error code (LNK1104), and it has a PLETHORA of possibilities. The main thing I need to know is WHERE should this file go?</p>
  <p>Any Thoughts?</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/dDgMb.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here is a picture of the error messages</a></p>