libvorbis has libogg as a dependency, you need to have libogg compiled beforehand. Lets say you have libogg and libvorbis in the same directory: libogg-1.1.3 libvorbis-1.2.0 Because there is no automatic library detection you have to, either: 1. Rename libogg-1.1.3 to libogg 2. Open libogg.props with a text editor (even notepad.exe will suffice) and see if LIBOGG_VERSION is set to the correct version, in this case "1.1.3"