/OPT:REF issues - linker gurus please help

[Spiritofamerica]

hello I have a problem when I link my program in Release Mode I get some crazy linker warnings like this: LINK : warning LNK4089: all references to "ADVAPI32.dll" discarded by /OPT:REF LINK : warning LNK4089: all references to "SHELL32.dll" discarded by /OPT:REF LINK : warning LNK4089: all references to "comdlg32.dll" discarded by /OPT:REF and because of them some features of my program(namely all functions that have something to do with wininet.h) don't work any more. In Debug mode anything works ok. I see that some com objects that I use get this /OPT:REF thing going whenever I call some methods because if I put this in comments it works what is this /OPT:REF thing? anyway I can turn of this/OPT:REF thing??

[Ryan Binns]

There's no problems there. That's just saying that you told the linker to link to these libraries, but you didn't actually use anything from them, so the linker is not including them. To remove the warnings, remove the libraries from the linker setup of your project settings, but there's really no need to. They're just information anyway.

Ryan

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[Anonymous]

I only include one library wininet.lib but if I remove it all the functions from wininet.h don't work I have no other librabies linked I am using MFC support in a static library