Identifying Needed Link Libraries

I'm using C++ under Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010). I've pulled in a third-party library provided as headers and libs. The first call I added into this library produced a ton of unresolved symbol link errors. The problem is that there are a lot of .lib files in this library. I need to somehow identify the ones I need. I have already added the library directory to the VS2010 linker options. Now I just need to identify the individual libraries I need.

Best possible solution: After the link attempt, VS2010 would scan the library directory for the unresolved symbols and would tell me what .lib files contain them.

Barring this, I'd like to solicit ideas from the community on the most efficient way to solve thi开发者_开发问答s problem.

Thanks, Dave

The documentation is supposed to tell you. If you don't have any then leave it up to the linker to sort it out. Add all the .libs as Additional Dependencies.

Then take a lazy Friday to sort out which ones you really need with the /VERBOSE linker option, it shows you which .lib is actually getting used in the trace to the Output window. Project + Properties, Linker, Command line to add the option.