LNK1104: Cannot Open base.lib

LNK1104: Cannot Open base.lib 

Hello everyone, I'm frighteningly new/ignorant of the ways of C++ and I'm not quite sure how to get around an error I keep getting when attempting to build any of the iPlug examples VS2010 Express. 3>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'base.lib' Anyone got any ideas? Feel free to tell me to point me to a bigger,broader article/tutorial/book. I normally take pride in my ability to troubleshoot but feel out of my depth in this situation. Brandon

I'm assuming you are using wdl-ol right? When you open up your solution (not vcxproj) there should be a project called "base." That project needs to be compiled for your plugin to compile. Try right clicking on base and hit "build" and see if it compiles. If it doesn't compile remember that you have to put the aeffect.h and aeffectx.h in your VST_SDK folder

base.lib is only required to build VST3 plugins. If you haven't put the VST3 sdk in place then the VST3 plugin won't compile. I would make sure that you are using the next branch of WDL-OL which has some fixes in the Examples Visual Studio projects to make sure base.lib gets built when necessary.

Thanks for the responses. Sorry for the absurd delay in responding. I took a month and focused on learning the very basics of C++. I got in the mood to tackle this today. It turns out that all the problems were entirely VS2010 Express. I wasn't prepared for the fact that I had to install and then uninstall the thing 10 different ways and times in various sequences to get it to work correctly. This specific instance required me to reinstall the SP1 upgrade. That seems to have fixed it. Thanks, guys!! Brandon

I just updated WDL-OL and rebuilt base.lib using one of example projects.

I'm getting the error for iPlug.lib - any ideas?? 

fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'IPlug.lib' Can't seem to find much info on it :( Tried vc++ 2010 and vs2017.