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Native C++ project cannot compile in release mode?

I was building a win32 static library project and on debug mode it compiles without any problem but when I changed the build mode to release I get this link errors. Can anyone suggest what is going wrong here? 

Error   2   error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals   C:\Users\serak\Desktop\Cimg Wrapper\Release\nativeWin32console.exe  nativeWin32console
Error   1   error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _main C:\Users\serak\Desktop\Cimg Wrapper\nativeWin32console\MSVCRT.lib(crtexe.obj)   nativeWin32console
Solution

  • I think in the Project Propierty Pages (rigth click the project in VS solution explorer) of the project change for ALL configuration and platform, the Configuration Propiertie->Project Defaults->Configuration Type-> from Aplication to Static Libraries: you probably have set it for debug but not for the release configuration.