Illegal characters in path during linking

[dk1301]

I entered the windows library path that contains the linux shared libraries either on VC++ directories or in the "Shared library search path" of the linker but when linking the following error occurs:

Illegal characters in path

Expected results:
Linker links the objects file correctly in order to create the executable file.

Actual results:
No executable .out file is created in the relevant Ubuntu project folder.

The build output window correlates the error with the following line

Ld Condition="'@(RemoteLink)' != ''"

of the file:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Application Type\Linux\1.0\Linux.Common.targets

VC++ 2015 and 2017
VirtualBox Ubuntu 16.04
gcc 6.2
gdbserver 7.11.1
Windows 7

[prgtrdr]

I had this same problem, and it took a while to figure out. Of course, it had nothing to do with having illegal characters in the path!

Here are 2 important things to check:

1. Make sure you have specified all the libraries needed for your project in Configuration Properties->Linker->Input->Library Dependencies. For my project it is: boost_filesystem;boost_system;boost_iostreams;boost_program_options;boost_date_time;gomp

2. Copy (using WinSCP, ftp, etc.) the entire /usr/include directory tree from your Ubuntu machine to a local directory, say, c:\Libraries\Linux\usr\include. Then specify the local directory as the first path in Configuration Properties-> VC++ Directories->General->Include Directories, for example, c:\Libraries\Linux\usr\include;C:\Libraries\Linux\usr\include\x86_64-linux-gnu;$(IncludePath);$(ISenseIncludePath)

These steps are necessary not only for proper compile/link but also for Intellisense to (mostly) work.

Let me know if htis helps.

[dk1301]

I missed point 1 with the explicit declaration of the libraries. Thanks a lot for your help.