title: How to link to a library
body: <p>Visual Studio 2010.</p>
  
  <p>My library is in a folder called "lib" which is in the project folder.</p>
  
  <p>I had added the library to <code>Properties&gt;Linker&gt;Input&gt;Additional Directories</code>, and have tried various things in <code>Properties&gt;Linker&gt;General&gt;Additional Library</code> Directories but none work (have tried ../lib, $(SolutionDir)../lib, lib, and same with an additional slash at the end).</p>
  
  <p>I also tried just having it in the project folder which didn't work either. (With $(SolutionDir) in Additional Library Directories or blank)</p>
  
  <p>I always get this linker error: <code>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'cyclone_d.lib'</code> or     <code>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'cyclone.lib' if trying to build a release version.</code></p>
  
  <p>If anybody has any ideas about what I need to do that would be fantastic.</p>