# External Libraries to Link

**URL:** <https://forum.juce.com/t/external-libraries-to-link/16295>\
**Category:** The Projucer\
**Created:** [December 31, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/external-libraries-to-link/16295 "2015-12-31T02:05:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Bradley\_Rothenberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@Bradley\_Rothenberg](https://forum.juce.com/u/Bradley_Rothenberg)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/external-libraries-to-link/16295/1 "2015-12-31T02:05:03Z")

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Hello,

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I am linking to a library that has seperate .lib & .dll files to use when built in release vs debug -- so say libd.dll /&nbsp;libd.lib for debug & lib.dll / lib.lib for release.

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The introjucer only has one place to list the External Libraries to link to, which is under the VisualStudio2015 tab, not locally under each build setting. I know I can set seperate paths in debug & release, but can you move the External Libraries to Link to input down one level to each build setting??

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Otherwise, how else can I link to libraries like this ?

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Thanks!

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Bradley

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**Author:** ![timur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/timur/32/541_2.png) [@timur](https://forum.juce.com/u/timur)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/external-libraries-to-link/16295/2 "2016-01-04T17:33:02Z")

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Hi there,

couldn't you have the libraries to have the same file name, but reside in different directories for Debug and Release, respectively? That sounds like a cleaner approach to me. Then you can use different values for the "Extra library search paths" setting, which already is one level down at the configuration level.