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Asked: 2026-06-11T14:10:54+00:00

{NOTE}: Visual Studio Dos support .ipp file. The problem here is more manual inefficiency

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{NOTE}: Visual Studio Dos support .ipp file. The problem here is more manual inefficiency rather than technical.

In a C++ project there are few .ipp etensions files. While compiling in visual C++ 2008, i see some linker errors "LNK2019: unresolved external symbol". I figured, for some object file linker was not able to link few function which were implemented under .ipp file. I included .ipp files under project (earlier they were not) but still the same issue.

My question is does visual C++ 2008 does not support .ipp file? If it does whats the right way to resolve these linker errors.

EDIT 1:
I found this link that supposedly should provide a workaround to make *.ipp work for visual C++. But, i am using Visual C++ 2008 and see registry path do not have “Languages\File Extensions” field as what this link says.

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    If the *.ipp is a header file, you don’t need to include it into the project — just add the appropriate #include directive, where needed.

    If it’s a translation unit, i.e. you want to compile it, then add it to the project, right-click on it, in the property page go to “General”, set “Item type” to be “C/C++ compiler”.

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