I am trying to use the LibTIFF library in a C Visual Studio 2019 project, so far without success. Building the library is no problem and leaves me with both a "tiff.lib" and a "tiff.dll".

Since i only need them for this project, i haven't done any linking or added them to PATH - the files and their folder are however referenced in the Visual Studio config under "Linker/Additional Dependencies" and "Linker/Additional Libraries" respectively.

The declarations i need should be available by using #include <tiffio.h> or #include "tiffio.h", which currently only give me the error "File Source Cannot be Opened"

How do i add the functionality of this library to my Project?

The following questions are related but only cover the build process: Using LibTiff in Visual Studio 2010 Installing LibTiff to Visual Studio 2010

CodePudding user response：

Installing vcpkg and then using vcpkg install tiff installs the LibTIFF library and allows you(me) to import the TIFF functions to any c/c project. This also skips the need for building the library.

Thanks at @doug for this solution