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Asked: May 31, 20262026-05-31T08:13:40+00:00 2026-05-31T08:13:40+00:00

It’s me again. I’m back with an all new project and an all new

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It’s me again. I’m back with an all new project and an all new problem.
I am trying to implement something for Growl. Either using a static or shared library (both are provided). I included the necessary header and linked to the library. (2 ways actually, once through the project properties and the other through a pragma statement). However, im still receiving the following linker errors:

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: __thiscall Growl::Growl(enum Growl_Protocol,char const * const,char const * const,char const * * const,int)" (__imp_??0Growl@@QAE@W4Growl_Protocol@@QBD1QAPBDH@Z)
error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: __thiscall Growl::~Growl(void)" (__imp_??1Growl@@QAE@XZ)
fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals

The line of code that is causing these linker errors is this line:

const char *n[2] = { "username" , "password" };
Growl *growl = new Growl(GROWL_TCP,NULL, "Appname", (const char **const)n,2);

The header file is being included at the top of the file and I am linking with the following line:

#include "..\\..\\..\\libs\\Growl\\growl++.hpp"
#pragma comment(lib, "..\\..\\..\\libs\\Growl\\libgrowl-static++.lib")

The header source can be found here:
https://github.com/psinnott/gntp-send/blob/master/headers/growl%2B%2B.hpp

I retrieved the pre-built binaries from the following page:
https://github.com/psinnott/gntp-send/wiki/Windows

Some extra info: I do have my Project Propeties character set to use Multi-Byte Character Set, im under the assumption this shouldn’t affect anything. This is also a Win32 Console application.

Where am I going wrong?

Update:
Found this via google:
http://groups.google.com/group/growl-for-windows/browse_thread/thread/6c48a62454d062f1

Followed the instructions:
Added the libgrowlstatic.lib (alongside libgrowlstatic++.lib)
Added the pre-processor definitions, GROWL_STATIC and GROWL_CPP_STATIC

Got lots of error including:

LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRTD' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'LIBCMT' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
fatal error LNK1169: one or more multiply defined symbols found

So I added the following line to Project properties, Linker, Command Line:

/NODEFAULTLIB:MSVCRTD /NODEFAULTLIB:LIBCMT 

Now im getting alot more errors including some of the following:

libgrowl-static.lib(tcp.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _atoi referenced in function _growl_tcp_parse_hostname
libgrowl-static.lib(tcp.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _strchr referenced in function _growl_tcp_parse_hostname
libgrowl-static.lib(growl-static.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _fseek referenced in function _growl_tcp_register
libgrowl-static.lib(growl-static.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _fopen referenced in function _growl_tcp_register
libgrowl-static.lib(growl-static.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _strcpy referenced in function _growl_udp_notify

Been at this for several hours and can’t seem to figure it out. 10+ views and no replies?
I swear im not being lazy. I looked into one of the answers provided about libraries but didn’t have much luck. Nothing explained why this is acting the way it is. Please help!

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    2026-05-31T08:13:41+00:00Added an answer on May 31, 2026 at 8:13 am

    This is working for me. It assumes you want to use the static libraries and not the dll.

    Properties -> Configuration -> Properties -> VC++ Directories

    Add directory of unzipped sdk to include and library directories
    

    Properties -> Configuration -> Properties -> C/C++ -> Preprocessor

    Add GROWL_STATIC and GROWL_CPP_STATIC to preprocessor definitions
    

    Properties -> Configuration -> Properties -> C/C++ -> Code generation

    Change runtime library to multi threaded ( /MT or /MTd )
    

    Properties -> Configuration -> Properties -> Linker -> Input

    Add ws2_32.lib , libgrowl-static.lib and libgrowl-static++.lib to additional dependencies
    
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