[MPICH] New to MPI and having problems with MPICH2 setup with Visual C++6.0

[Oberta A. Slotterbeck (Obie)]

I'm having problems setting up MPICH2 to run on a single machine, and would be grateful for any help.

The machine is a Dell laptop with P4 processor, running Windows XP. I want to run with Visual C++ 6.0 and use it for development running MPI only on one machine, but sometimes with multiple processors (i.e. mpirun -np 4 myprog) to test code that will eventually run on a cluster. Unfortunately, the cluster is not available remotely and I don't want to drive in to use it during development time.

I thought I had all the necessary paths set in Visual C++ 6.0 so the MPICH2 lib, bin, and include directories could be found as well as C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM 32 where all the *.dll files reside.  The icpi.exe exectuable provided runs fine on my machine, but when I try to build from scratch with icpi.c, I get major link errors. What stupid thing am I overlooking? Did I not install things properly or what?

Compiling...
icpi.c
Linking...
icpi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Finalize
icpi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Reduce
icpi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Bcast
icpi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Wtime
icpi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Get_processor_name
icpi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Comm_rank
icpi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Comm_size
icpi.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _MPI_Init
Debug/icpi.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 8 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

icpi.exe - 9 error(s), 0 warning(s)
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