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[Senthil Kumar via llvm-dev]

AFAICT, the linker is complaining that it cannot find CoTaskMemFree. Did
you try adding Ole32.lib (
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms680722(v=vs.85).aspx)
to the list of libraries the linker looks at?

Regards
Senthil

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 9:57 AM, justin chase via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> Please forgive me if this is the wrong mailing list for my question.
>
> First off, I am on Windows and using git bash for everything:
>
> $ uname
> MINGW32_NT-6.2
>
> I am attempting to essentially do the kalidescope example. I have copied
> the code verbatim from the full code listing and am running the following
> command:
>
> $ clang-cl toy.cpp deps/llvm/build/Debug/lib/*.lib //MDd -o toy.exe -I
> deps/llvm/include
>
> Which results in this error:
>
> LLVMSupport.lib(Path.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_CoTaskMemFree referenced in function "bool __cdecl
> llvm::sys::path::getKnownFolderPath(struct _GUID,class
> llvm::SmallVectorImpl<char> &)" (?getKnownFolderPath at path@sys at llvm@@YA_N
> U_GUID@@AEAV?$SmallVectorImpl at D@3@@Z)
> toy.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
>
> I've tried simplifying things but no matter what I do that is the error I
> get. So I'm assuming I'm not building llvm correctly. Here is essentially
> what I'm doing:
>
> $ cd deps
> $ git clone http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git
> $ mkdir llvm/build && cd llvm/build
> $ cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 2012 Win64"
> $ cmake --build .
>
> That builds for quite a while but eventually appears to succeed without
> any errors. I had to manually copy a few files that were transformed but
> not copied to where there were expected to be but after figuring that my
> code appears to compile except for the missing getKnowFolderPath function.
>
> What's really strange is that I see that function in the code, Path.inc. I
> can't seem to figure out why this function would be unresolvable.
>
> Can anyone here help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? I'm assuming
> there is some define or other flag that I need to specify to get linking
> correctly.
>
>
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