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I have some .lib files, but I do not have access to the .h header files.
Does this mean the .lib files are useless now?
If not, how can I use them again?
I tried using this line in my program, but it doesn’t seem to be compiled into the final executable (verified with CFF Explorer).
#pragma comment(lib, "SomeLibFile.lib")
So, the only way to link .lib file is through the use of its header files?
Are there any tools to recover a header file for the .lib file?
It depends on how the .lib file code was written. If it is a c api, this is what the extern keyword is for. You could find some sort of program that would show you the function exports. Then you could declare them as extern in your code. The problem would be your data structures though.
Anyways, you don’t technically have to have the header files, you could define the data structures on your own, and declare the functions with the extern keyword.
You could just link the .lib when you run your linker at the end of your compilation process.