Q:
We are developing a large scale C++ application that relies on many
libraries (including PDFNet). I'm getting a linker error which seems
to indicate a conflict between pdfMDDll.lib and a 3rd party image
processing library. How can I use PDFNet static libraries in a large
C++ project?
I've tried changing the link order. I've also tried the /FORCE
linker command line switch. This builds the project, but there are
additional errors.
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A:
The problem is that there may be some name space collisions in
different static libraries. To avoid name and API collisions in large
projects, it is a good idea to break the application in several
modules/DLL-s. For example, you could compile 3rd party image
processing library as a dynamic library (i.e. DLL), or alternatively
you could compile your code that uses PDFNet (but not ImageMagick) as a
separate DLL.