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Linking
Linker Options
Compiler-Controlled LINK Options
LINK Input Files
LINK Output
Reserved Words
@ (Specify a Linker Response File)
/ALIGN (Section Alignment)
/ALLOWBIND (Prevent DLL Binding)
/ALLOWISOLATION (Manifest Lookup)
/APPCONTAINER (Windows Store App)
/ASSEMBLYDEBUG (Add DebuggableAttribute)
/ASSEMBLYLINKRESOURCE (Link to .NET Framework Resource)
/ASSEMBLYMODULE (Add a MSIL Module to the Assembly)
/ASSEMBLYRESOURCE (Embed a Managed Resource)
/BASE (Base Address)
/CLRIMAGETYPE (Specify Type of CLR Image)
/CLRUNMANAGEDCODECHECK (Add SupressUnmanagedCodeSecurityAttribute)
/CLRSUPPORTLASTERROR (Preserve Last Error Code for PInvoke Calls)
/CLRTHREADATTRIBUTE (Set CLR Thread Attribute)
/DEBUG (Generate Debug Info)
/DEF (Specify Module-Definition File)
/DEFAULTLIB (Specify Default Library)
/DELAY (Delay Load Import Settings)
/DELAYLOAD (Delay Load Import)
/DELAYSIGN (Partially Sign an Assembly)
/DLL (Build a DLL)
/DRIVER (Windows NT Kernel Mode Driver)
/DYNAMICBASE (Use address space layout randomization)
/ENTRY (Entry-Point Symbol)
/ERRORREPORT (Report Internal Linker Errors)
/EXPORT (Exports a Function)
/FIXED (Fixed Base Address)
/FORCE (Force File Output)
/FUNCTIONPADMIN (Create Hotpatchable Image)
/HEAP (Set Heap Size)
/HIGHENTROPYVA (Support 64-Bit ASLR)
/IDLOUT (Name MIDL Output Files)
/IGNOREIDL (Don't Process Attributes into MIDL)
/IMPLIB (Name Import Library)
/INCLUDE (Force Symbol References)
/INCREMENTAL (Link Incrementally)
/INTEGRITYCHECK (Require Signature Check)
/KEYCONTAINER (Specify a Key Container to Sign an Assembly)
/KEYFILE (Specify Key or Key Pair to Sign an Assembly)
/LARGEADDRESSAWARE (Handle Large Addresses)
/LIBPATH (Additional Libpath)
/LTCG (Link-time Code Generation)
/MACHINE (Specify Target Platform)
/MANIFEST (Create Side-by-Side Assembly Manifest)
/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY (Specify Manifest Dependencies)
/MANIFESTFILE (Name Manifest File)
/MANIFESTINPUT (Specify Manifest Input)
/MANIFESTUAC (Embeds UAC information in manifest)
/MAP (Generate Mapfile)
/MAPINFO (Include Information in Mapfile)
/MERGE (Combine Sections)
/MIDL (Specify MIDL Command Line Options)
/NOASSEMBLY (Create a MSIL Module)
/NODEFAULTLIB (Ignore Libraries)
/NOENTRY (No Entry Point)
/NOLOGO (Suppress Startup Banner)
/NXCOMPAT (Compatible with Data Execution Prevention)
/OPT (Optimizations)
/ORDER (Put Functions in Order)
/OUT (Output File Name)
/PDB (Use Program Database)
/PDBALTPATH (Use Alternate PDB Path)
/PDBSTRIPPED (Strip Private Symbols)
/PGD (Specify Database for Profile-Guided Optimizations)
/PROFILE (Performance Tools Profiler)
/RELEASE (Set the Checksum)
/SAFESEH (Image has Safe Exception Handlers)
/SECTION (Specify Section Attributes)
/STACK (Stack Allocations)
/STUB (MS-DOS Stub File Name)
/SUBSYSTEM (Specify Subsystem)
/SWAPRUN (Load Linker Output to Swap File)
/TLBID (Specify Resource ID for TypeLib)
/TLBOUT (Name .TLB File)
/TSAWARE (Create Terminal Server Aware Application)
/VERBOSE (Print Progress Messages)
/VERSION (Version Information)
/WINMD (Generate Windows Metadata)
/WINMDFILE (Specify winmd File)
/WINMDKEYFILE (Specify winmd Key File)
/WINMDKEYCONTAINER (Specify Key Container)
/WINMDDELAYSIGN (Partially Sign a winmd)
/WX (Treat Linker Warnings as Errors)
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/DEFAULTLIB (Specify Default Library)

Visual Studio 2012

Copy 
/DEFAULTLIB:library

where:

library

The name of a library to search when resolving external references.

The /DEFAULTLIB option adds one library to the list of libraries that LINK searches when resolving references. A library specified with /DEFAULTLIB is searched after libraries specified on the command line and before default libraries named in .obj files.

The Ignore All Default Libraries (/NODEFAULTLIB) option overrides /DEFAULTLIB:library. The Ignore Libraries (/NODEFAULTLIB:library) option overrides /DEFAULTLIB:library when the same library name is specified in both.

To set this linker option in the Visual Studio development environment

  • This linker option is not available from the Visual Studio development environment. To add a library to the link phase, use the Additional Dependencies property from the Input property page.

To set this linker option programmatically

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