Gen - LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'encyapiw.lib'

Products

• Gen - Workstation Toolset
• Gen - Host Encyclopedia
• Gen - Run Time Distributed

Issue/Introduction

After compiling the Windows Encyclopedia API apidemo.c, the link fails with LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'encyapiw.lib'.

The following instructions are documented in the Gen documentation in the Additional Information link.

set INCLUDE=%Genxx%CSE\include;%INCLUDE%
set LIB=%Genxx%CSE\lib;%LIB%
cl -c -Gy -Zp1 -W4 -MD -EHsc -nologo apidemo.c
link @apidemo.txt

In testing, it was noticed that an additional path was needed for the LIB.  set LIB=%Gen86%CSE\lib;%Gen86%Gen;%LIB%

Using Gen 8.6, so for the set statements above, use %Gen86% instead of %Genxx%.

Resolution

In the folder %gen86%\gen\samples\apidemo, there are two link files, apidemow.txt and apidem2w.txt.  Each file contains outdated .lib references.  The corrected link files are in the attached "APIDEMO 8.6 updates.zip".

Additional Information

Encyclopedia API Reference > Using Windows, UNIX, and Linux APIs > Windows Encyclopedia API