Linker error on Visual Studio 2008 C++: 32-bit library in 64-bit Windows

Look, I've done my homework, googled and stack-overflowed and still can't manage it. So, pwleese, don't tell me to link my libraries with Project > Properties > Linker > Input > Additional dependencies, ok?

I have some 3rd party static libs built for Win32, and am trying to link a program using VS C++ 2008 in a 64-bit machine. The point is, I'm using WinXP 32-bit, VSC++ solution platform is set to Win32 and开发者_JAVA技巧 the same configuration works fine on a 32-bit machine. I can't rule out another source of stupidness from me, but until now this is the only thing that makes sense. Initially some pre-built Boost libraries wouldn't link too; after I compiled them, they worked.

The errors are all like this: error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: ..."

As I said, the same configuration works fine on another machine, although I did try to link the DLLs instead of static linking.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Try using the Dependency Walker and see what files are missing or wrong.

Note that it usees the current PATH variable, which can affect your results.