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Asked: 2026-06-12T03:17:17+00:00

I’m using visual studio 2012 and when I try to compile, I get following

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I’m using visual studio 2012 and when I try to compile, I get following errors:

Error   7   error LNK1120: 6 unresolved externals   C:\Users\MS\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\LuaTest\Release\LuaTest.exe   LuaTest
Error   4   error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _lua_close    C:\Users\MS\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\LuaTest\LuaTest\main.obj  LuaTest
Error   5   error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _lua_pcallk   C:\Users\MS\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\LuaTest\LuaTest\main.obj  LuaTest
Error   6   error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _lua_settop   C:\Users\MS\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\LuaTest\LuaTest\main.obj  LuaTest
Error   2   error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _luaL_loadfilex   C:\Users\MS\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\LuaTest\LuaTest\main.obj  LuaTest
Error   1   error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _luaL_newstate C:\Users\MS\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\LuaTest\LuaTest\main.obj LuaTest
Error   3   error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _luaopen_base C:\Users\MS\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\LuaTest\LuaTest\main.obj  LuaTest

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Using following library version: lua-5.2.1_Win32_dll10_lib.zip

I tried different lua52.lib files, but with all of them I get these errors.
What could be wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are using Visual Studio 2012, but library files from here appealingly only support up to Visual Studio 2010.

    Anyway, Lua is small and very easy to compile. I would really recommend you to include Lua source files in Visual Studio instead of libraries.

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