msvs 2015 x64 gives _w64 can only be specified on int, long, and pointer types Topic is solved

[fps079]

Hi all,

I built wxWidgets libraries from the Visual Studio 2015 GUI and was able to generate the debug and release libraries in x86 and x64.

However when I use the libraries only the x86 versions work.

If I try and build my project with the x64 version I get two errors during linking:

_w64 can only be specified on int, long, and pointer types and
LNK1104 cannot open file 'wxbase32ud.lib'

obviously I am doing sometime wrong if windows can't even read a library that it created.

I have been up and down the internet trying things like rebuilding the libraries, trying all the different directories and preprocessor stuff, nothing seems to work. I even tried the things on the "_w64 can only be specified on int, long. and pointer types" thread that dohpam1ne had, but no dice.

I have followed the documentation to build the wxWidgets libraries on msvs.

Any help would be appreciated.

[PB]

Is your project linker path pointing to the correct library, i.e. by default for static build

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$(WXWIN)\lib\vc_x64_lib

If you do not use MSVC-specific include, did you also change the include path be like e.g. this for static debug build

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$(WXWIN)\lib\vc_x64_lib\mswud;$(WXWIN)\include

The library name is for some reason also wrong. The latest wxWidgets version is 3.1.4, so you cannot have 'wxbase32ud.lib' which would be for v3.2.

[fps079]

Hello PB.

You got it. I am using stable 3.0.5 version of wxWidgets, so my library is wxbase30ud.lib. I am working also with opengl32.lib and so confabulated the library name into wxbase32ud.lib instead of wxbase30ud.lib.

Anyway I realized my issue this morning and corrected the name. Eventually I got it to work.

Thank you for responding. I appreciate it.