[odb-users] MSVC19 link error: LNK2001: Unresolved external symbol

[CETONI GmbH - Uwe Kindler]

> CETONI GmbH - Uwe Kindler <uwe.kindler at cetoni.de> writes:
>
>> error LNK2001: Unresolved external symbol ""struct odb::details::share
>> odb::details::shared" (?shared at details@odb@@3Ushare at 12@A)"
>>
>> The symbol is declared in odb/details/shared_ptr/base.hxx:
>>
>>
>>      extern LIBODB_EXPORT share shared;
> I believe adding -DLIBODB_SHARED to your MSVC compiler command line
> when building your application (and generated code) will help.
>
> For background, without either LIBODB_SHARED or LIBODB_STATIC we
> fall back to automatic symbol importing but in MSVC it only works
> for functions, not global variables (this is the reason why you
> only see this unresolved symbol rather than many -- the rest are
> all functions and that works).

Thank you very much - this solved the issue.