AWS C++ SDK and MSVC2015: How to determine which static libs should be added?

Question

I'm trying to build simple programm with AWS C++ SDK and MSVC2015:

#include <iostream>
#include <aws\core\Aws.h>

int main()
{
    Aws::SDKOptions options;
    Aws::InitAPI(options);
    {
        std::cout << "success\n";
    }
    Aws::ShutdownAPI(options);
    return 0;
}

First, I've got linker error about 2 unresolved externals -InitAPI and ShutdownAPI. (AWS SDK was build as static libraries).

I added aws-cpp-sdk-core.lib to the "ConfigurationProperties->Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies". Now these two externals are resolved, but I get 37 new unresolved exernals - supposedly used by added library.

So the question is - how to determine what other libraries I should add? Is there a way to do it automatically in Visual Studio?

Upd. "New" unresolved externals are of these kinds:
BCryptXXX
_imp_HttpXXX
_imp_InternetXXX
_imp_WinHttpXXX

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 08 '17 at 16:49

One way to make using the AWS SDK for C++ easier with Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 is to use VCPKG, https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg. It is a package manager and it has the aws-cpp-sdk in its library (though it can take some time to compile).

To use in VC, run vcpkg integrate install from the command line in the vcpkg directory and then it will include needed file automatically in the VC IDE.

For a walkthrough, see https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/09/19/vcpkg-a-tool-to-acquire-and-build-c-open-source-libraries-on-windows/.

AWS C++ SDK and MSVC2015: How to determine which static libs should be added?

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