annoying linker warning (LNK4089)

[Intangir]

i seem to get this warning on damn near any MFC project i've used on Visual Studio .net LINK : warning LNK4089: all references to 'OLEAUT32.dll' discarded by /OPT:REF i looked it up and apparently the linker is decided that i dont need OLEAUT32.dll cause nothing is using it.. but i cant figure out where in the world any part of my project is mentioning OLEAUT32.dll in the first place. so im not sure why the linker thinks i wanted it in the first place

[Tim Smith]

With many include files, they have a #pragma statement that adds the DLL/LIB as a required DLL/LIB during the link phase. For example, COMDEF.H includes: #pragma comment(lib, "oleaut32.lib") Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

[Gary R Wheeler]

This warning is harmless, and can be ignored if the DLL in question is one of the system DLL's. In that case, a piece of library code (which may have been omitted due to function-level linking) referenced the DLL, and you no longer need it. If the DLL in the message is one of yours, you may want to check.

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