[Build]: After building a static library in window, LINK fails.

[runNing4354]

OpenVINO Version

tag 2024.5.0

Operating System

Windows System

Hardware Architecture

x86 (64 bits)

Target Platform

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Build issue description

After building with static libraries, the visual studio project link failed.

Here's the process I went through

git clone --branch 2024.5.0 https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino.git

git submodule update --init --recursive

mkdir build

cd build

cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release - \ 
DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:/Users/tam/Desktop/openvino/cmake/toolchains/mt.runtime.win32.toolchain.cmake ..

cmake --build . --config Release --target install

Then link the include and lib located in "C:\Program Files\OpenVINO\runtime" in the project properties,

Then, Properties page > Linker > Command Line and added the following commands.

 /WHOLEARCHIVE:libprotobuf.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:mlas.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:onnx.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:onnx_proto.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:OpenCL.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_auto_batch_plugin.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_auto_plugin.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_c.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_hetero_plugin.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_intel_cpu_plugin.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_intel_gpu_graph.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_intel_gpu_kernels.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_intel_gpu_plugin.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_intel_gpu_runtime.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_intel_npu_plugin.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_interpreter_backend.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_ir_frontend.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_itt.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_jax_frontend.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_npu_al.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_npu_common.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_npu_driver_compiler_adapter.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_npu_level_zero_backend.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_npu_logger_utils.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_npu_zero_utils.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_onednn_cpu.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_onednn_gpu.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_onnx_common.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_onnx_frontend.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_paddle_frontend.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_pytorch_frontend.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_reference.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_shape_inference.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_snippets.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_template_plugin.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_tensorflow_common.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_tensorflow_frontend.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_tensorflow_lite_frontend.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:openvino_util.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:pugixml.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:snappy.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:utils.lib /WHOLEARCHIVE:ze_loader.lib

As a result, you can see the LINK2001 error.

Error LNK2001 Unresolved external symbols "public: void __cdecl google::protobuf::internal::ArenaStringPtr::Set(class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > const &,class google::protobuf::Arena *)" (?Set@ArenaStringPtr@internal@protobuf@google@@QEAAXAEBV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@PEAVArena@34@@Z)	

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[ilya-lavrenov]

Then, Properties page > Linker > Command Line and added the following commands.

Could you please use cmake interface and link target openvino::runtime to your application.

Manual listing of all static libraries in Properties page > Linker can be a tricky as you need to list all the libs in proper order.

[runNing4354]

Then, Properties page > Linker > Command Line and added the following commands.

Could you please use cmake interface and link target openvino::runtime to your application.

Manual listing of all static libraries in Properties page > Linker can be a tricky as you need to list all the libs in proper order.

Thank you. I tried using the CMake interface, and it linked successfully.