https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Fortran-Compiler/ifort-dll-link-error-LNK4098/m-p/1262430#M154944 <P>Yes, using /libs:dll consistently was the correct choice. /NODEFAULTLIB is almost always the wrong choice (despite the claim in the error message.)</P> <P>What you have is what DEC (now Intel) developer Lorri Menard called "MCLS" or "Mixed C Library Syndrome". Her original Visual Fortran Newsletter article on the topic is no longer around, but the concept remains. Unlike the Intel Fortran support libraries, the Microsoft Visual C/C++ libraries don't like being mixed, with debug and non-debug versions combined, or similarly static and DLL. The reason is that the MSVC compiler generates different code depending on which library type you specify. Since the Fortran support library is written in C, that issue carries over to Fortran builds. (Intel Fortran doesn't generate different code for these cases.)</P> <DIV class="ms-editor-squiggler" style="color: initial; font: initial; font-feature-settings: initial; font-kerning: initial; font-optical-sizing: initial; font-variation-settings: initial; forced-color-adjust: initial; text-orientation: initial; text-rendering: initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: initial; -webkit-locale: initial; -webkit-text-orientation: initial; -webkit-writing-mode: initial; writing-mode: initial; zoom: initial; place-content: initial; place-items: initial; place-self: initial; alignment-baseline: initial; animation: initial; appearance: initial; aspect-ratio: initial; backdrop-filter: initial; backface-visibility: initial; background: initial; background-blend-mode: initial; baseline-shift: initial; block-size: initial; border-block: initial; border: initial; border-radius: initial; border-collapse: initial; border-end-end-radius: initial; border-end-start-radius: initial; border-inline: initial; border-start-end-radius: initial; 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text-align: initial; text-align-last: initial; text-anchor: initial; text-combine-upright: initial; text-decoration: initial; text-decoration-skip-ink: initial; text-indent: initial; text-overflow: initial; text-shadow: initial; text-size-adjust: initial; text-transform: initial; text-underline-offset: initial; text-underline-position: initial; touch-action: initial; transform: initial; transform-box: initial; transform-origin: initial; transform-style: initial; transition: initial; user-select: initial; vector-effect: initial; vertical-align: initial; visibility: initial; -webkit-app-region: initial; border-spacing: initial; -webkit-border-image: initial; -webkit-box-align: initial; -webkit-box-decoration-break: initial; -webkit-box-direction: initial; -webkit-box-flex: initial; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: initial; -webkit-box-orient: initial; -webkit-box-pack: initial; -webkit-box-reflect: initial; -webkit-highlight: initial; -webkit-hyphenate-character: initial; -webkit-line-break: initial; -webkit-line-clamp: initial; -webkit-mask-box-image: initial; -webkit-mask: initial; -webkit-mask-composite: initial; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: initial; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: initial; -webkit-print-color-adjust: initial; -webkit-rtl-ordering: initial; -webkit-ruby-position: initial; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: initial; -webkit-text-combine: initial; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: initial; -webkit-text-emphasis: initial; -webkit-text-emphasis-position: initial; -webkit-text-fill-color: initial; -webkit-text-security: initial; -webkit-text-stroke: initial; -webkit-transform-origin-x: initial; -webkit-transform-origin-y: initial; -webkit-transform-origin-z: initial; -webkit-user-drag: initial; -webkit-user-modify: initial; white-space: initial; widows: initial; width: initial; will-change: initial; word-break: initial; word-spacing: initial; x: initial; y: initial; z-index: initial;">&nbsp;</DIV> Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:39:59 GMT Steve_Lionel 2021-03-08T18:39:59Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Fortran-Compiler/ifort-dll-link-error-LNK4098/m-p/1262408#M154943 <P>Our Windows 7 64-bit application was built with Intel Composer XE 2013 Update 1 (package 119) using the command</P> <P>ifort&nbsp; /dll&nbsp; /real-size:128&nbsp; /double-size:128&nbsp; application.f&nbsp; dlsode.f</P> <P>We are upgrading to Windows 10 and Intel Visual Fortran Intel 64 Compiler 19.1.3.311 Build 20201010_000000 and want to compile dlsode.f with a lower optimization level /O1.&nbsp; Using the commands</P> <P><SPAN style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ifort&nbsp; /c&nbsp; /O1&nbsp; /real-size:128&nbsp; /double-size:128&nbsp; dlsode.f</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ifort&nbsp; /dll&nbsp; /real-size:128&nbsp; /double-size:128&nbsp; application.f&nbsp; dlsode.obj</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I get the link error</SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><FONT style="background-color: #ffffff;">LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'LIBCMT' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library</FONT></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><FONT style="background-color: #ffffff;">According to previous posts in this forum regarding LNK4098, dlsode.obj and application.obj are using different run-time libraries.&nbsp; When I replaced the first ifort command with</FONT></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><FONT style="background-color: #ffffff;"><SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; cursor: text; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ifort&nbsp; /c&nbsp; /O1&nbsp; /libs:dll&nbsp; /real-size:128&nbsp; /double-size:128&nbsp; dlsode.f</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; cursor: text; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><FONT style="background-color: #ffffff;"><SPAN style="background-color: #ffffff; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; cursor: text; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the dll seemed to build correctly and executed correctly.&nbsp; Was this the correct solution?&nbsp; What is the correct solution using the /NODEFAULTLIB option?</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:31:32 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Fortran-Compiler/ifort-dll-link-error-LNK4098/m-p/1262408#M154943 drschn15456 2021-03-08T17:31:32Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Fortran-Compiler/ifort-dll-link-error-LNK4098/m-p/1262430#M154944 <P>Yes, using /libs:dll consistently was the correct choice. /NODEFAULTLIB is almost always the wrong choice (despite the claim in the error message.)</P> <P>What you have is what DEC (now Intel) developer Lorri Menard called "MCLS" or "Mixed C Library Syndrome". Her original Visual Fortran Newsletter article on the topic is no longer around, but the concept remains. Unlike the Intel Fortran support libraries, the Microsoft Visual C/C++ libraries don't like being mixed, with debug and non-debug versions combined, or similarly static and DLL. The reason is that the MSVC compiler generates different code depending on which library type you specify. Since the Fortran support library is written in C, that issue carries over to Fortran builds. (Intel Fortran doesn't generate different code for these cases.)</P> <DIV class="ms-editor-squiggler" style="color: initial; font: initial; font-feature-settings: initial; font-kerning: initial; font-optical-sizing: initial; font-variation-settings: initial; forced-color-adjust: initial; text-orientation: initial; text-rendering: initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: initial; -webkit-locale: initial; -webkit-text-orientation: initial; -webkit-writing-mode: initial; writing-mode: initial; zoom: initial; place-content: initial; place-items: initial; place-self: initial; alignment-baseline: initial; animation: initial; appearance: initial; aspect-ratio: initial; backdrop-filter: initial; backface-visibility: initial; background: initial; background-blend-mode: initial; baseline-shift: initial; block-size: initial; border-block: initial; border: initial; border-radius: initial; border-collapse: initial; border-end-end-radius: initial; border-end-start-radius: initial; border-inline: initial; border-start-end-radius: initial; 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padding: initial; padding-inline: initial; page: initial; page-orientation: initial; paint-order: initial; perspective: initial; perspective-origin: initial; pointer-events: initial; position: initial; quotes: initial; r: initial; resize: initial; ruby-position: initial; rx: initial; ry: initial; scroll-behavior: initial; scroll-margin-block: initial; scroll-margin: initial; scroll-margin-inline: initial; scroll-padding-block: initial; scroll-padding: initial; scroll-padding-inline: initial; scroll-snap-align: initial; scroll-snap-stop: initial; scroll-snap-type: initial; shape-image-threshold: initial; shape-margin: initial; shape-outside: initial; shape-rendering: initial; size: initial; speak: initial; stop-color: initial; stop-opacity: initial; stroke: initial; stroke-dasharray: initial; stroke-dashoffset: initial; stroke-linecap: initial; stroke-linejoin: initial; stroke-miterlimit: initial; stroke-opacity: initial; stroke-width: initial; tab-size: initial; table-layout: initial; text-align: initial; text-align-last: initial; text-anchor: initial; text-combine-upright: initial; text-decoration: initial; text-decoration-skip-ink: initial; text-indent: initial; text-overflow: initial; text-shadow: initial; text-size-adjust: initial; text-transform: initial; text-underline-offset: initial; text-underline-position: initial; touch-action: initial; transform: initial; transform-box: initial; transform-origin: initial; transform-style: initial; transition: initial; user-select: initial; vector-effect: initial; vertical-align: initial; visibility: initial; -webkit-app-region: initial; border-spacing: initial; -webkit-border-image: initial; -webkit-box-align: initial; -webkit-box-decoration-break: initial; -webkit-box-direction: initial; -webkit-box-flex: initial; -webkit-box-ordinal-group: initial; -webkit-box-orient: initial; -webkit-box-pack: initial; -webkit-box-reflect: initial; -webkit-highlight: initial; -webkit-hyphenate-character: initial; -webkit-line-break: initial; -webkit-line-clamp: initial; -webkit-mask-box-image: initial; -webkit-mask: initial; -webkit-mask-composite: initial; -webkit-perspective-origin-x: initial; -webkit-perspective-origin-y: initial; -webkit-print-color-adjust: initial; -webkit-rtl-ordering: initial; -webkit-ruby-position: initial; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: initial; -webkit-text-combine: initial; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: initial; -webkit-text-emphasis: initial; -webkit-text-emphasis-position: initial; -webkit-text-fill-color: initial; -webkit-text-security: initial; -webkit-text-stroke: initial; -webkit-transform-origin-x: initial; -webkit-transform-origin-y: initial; -webkit-transform-origin-z: initial; -webkit-user-drag: initial; -webkit-user-modify: initial; white-space: initial; widows: initial; width: initial; will-change: initial; word-break: initial; word-spacing: initial; x: initial; y: initial; z-index: initial;">&nbsp;</DIV> Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:39:59 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Fortran-Compiler/ifort-dll-link-error-LNK4098/m-p/1262430#M154944 Steve_Lionel 2021-03-08T18:39:59Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Fortran-Compiler/ifort-dll-link-error-LNK4098/m-p/1262435#M154945 <P>Steve,</P> <P>Thank you very much for your prompt and thorough reply.</P> Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:52:42 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Fortran-Compiler/ifort-dll-link-error-LNK4098/m-p/1262435#M154945 drschn15456 2021-03-08T18:52:42Z