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<span style="font-size: 13.3333px">The problem is:</span>
<div>Since I never use Visual Studio per se, I unistalled the whole thing and</div>
<div>replaced it with the Visual Studio 2019 BuildTool, modifying "NT.common" as</div>
<div>follows:</div>
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<div>% Msdev = SystemDrive & "\\msdev\\80"</div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;line-height: 1.5"> Msdev = SystemDrive & "\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\BuildTools"</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;line-height: 1.5"> VCInstallDir = Msdev & "\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.21.27702"</span></div>
<div> DevEnvDir = Msdev & "\\Common7\\\IDE"</div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;line-height: 1.5"> end end end end</span></div>
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<div> if VCInstallDir</div>
<div> VCBin = VCInstallDir & "\\bin\\Hostx64\\x86"</div>
<div> VCLib = VCInstallDir & "\\lib"</div>
<div> VCInc = VCInstallDir & "\\include"</div>
<div> end</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">The MS 2019 build tool, has four sets of executables. Under "bin" two directories Host64 and Host32,</span>
<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">and, for both of them, targets x64 and x86.</span><br style="font-size: 13.3333px">
<span style="font-size: 13.3333px">I thus compiled using Host64, target x86 and still get the bloody LNK1112 error! </span>
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<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333px">And trying to follow what happens through the umpteen Russian Doll config files is near impossible for someone who did not participate in the setting-up of the whole thing.<br>
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