Dynamic linking in Visual Studio

Question

I have to link dynamically with OpenSSL libeay32.dll. I'm writing native c++ console application using Visual C++ Express 2008.

I'm including a header evp.h from OpenSSL distribution. Building and...:

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _EVP_aes_256_cbc
error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _EVP_DecryptInit
error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _EVP_CIPHER_CTX_init

How to make calls to libeay32.dll methods? I don't know where to specify it's filename

Answer 1

There is probably a .lib file you also need to add to your compiler's linker input. Check the documentation for the library you're using.

Answer 2

Try using Win32 API's LoadLibrary function, the following link might be of some help :example