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How to fix "Cannot find setup.h" error when building wxWidgets-3.1.2 project in Visual Studio?

When building a wxWidgets-3.1.2 project in Visual Studio (both the template from Nuget and the sample from the wxWidgets directory), the compiler generates the following error:

Error C1083 Cannot open include file: '../../../lib/vc_dll/mswud/wx/setup.h': No such file or directory Project1 c:\wxwidgets-3.1.2\include\msvc\wx\setup.h 125

I already built the wxWidgets DLLs in VS so that's not the problem.

I cannot fix this since the file location is in the wxWidgets source code and I don't want to modify that source code. But I really need to compile my project. Please help.

Solution

  • It turns out that I had built the release DLLs but not the debug DLLs. So that was my mistake. After I built the debug DLLs I was able to compile the application.