I have tried to build stlport on vs 2005 RTM,but got a LNK 4221
warning.
But on vs.net 2003(vc 7.1),there are no errors and warnings.
So I try to use LIB.exe in vc 7.1 to generate lib file from objs
generated by vc 8,hah,No warning!!
Is there a bug in LIB.exe in vc 8
regards,

Lnk 4221 Warning during building stlport on VS 2005
will rpberts
I'll try again to post it on their fornum cuz I did it and nobody replied me.
Siddharth Bhatia MSFT
Or you can use the tool dumpbin to see if there are public symbols.
The following links might be helpful though:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx scid=kb;en-us;815773
http://ms dn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/604bzebd.aspx
Thanks,
Ayman Shoukry
VC++ Team
Jim Hollcraft
Please post a sample reproducing the issue if possbile.
Thanks,
Ayman Shoukry
VC++ Team
Jens Karlsson
The build of STLport is 5.0 just released,supports vc 8.I followed the instruction to build it.
Then I logged the result.I found every lib will generate that 4221 warning like the following:
lib /nologo /OUT:obj\vc8\static-stlg\stlportstld_static.5.0.lib obj\vc8\static-stlg\dll_main.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\fstream.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\strstream.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\sstream.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\ios.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\stdio_streambuf.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\istream.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\ostream.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\iostream.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\codecvt.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\collate.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\ctype.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\monetary.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\num_get.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\num_put.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\num_get_float.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\num_put_float.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\numpunct.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\time_facets.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\messages.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\locale_impl.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\locale_catalog.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\facets_byname.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\complex.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\complex_exp.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\complex_io.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\complex_trig.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\complex_io_w.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\string_w.o obj\vc8\static-stlg\c_locale.o
complex_io_w.o : warning LNK4221: no public symbols found; archive member will be inaccessible
There are 3 Lnk4221 warnings cuz it need build 3 static libs.It seems like something wrong with complex_io_w.o.
Dlls have no problem.
Thanks for your reply!