Linking .lib file: fatal error LNK1107

Question

I am trying to compile a project containing code from this page.

I added the required glut32.lib to Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies.

glut32.lib : fatal error LNK1107: invalid or corrupt file: cannot read at 0x1E9E

Build FAILED.

I've read that it's a common mistake to link to the dll instead of the lib, but here I correctly linked to the .lib

What's the reason for this error?

Answer 1

As pointed out in the docs, LNK1107 can mean that either a dll file was erroneously linked OR that the correctly linked .lib file is corrupt (which I suspected to occur rather rarely). Apparently the latter one was the case here as re-downloading the lib solved my issue.