turned on verbose logging for linking and checked to see if anything suspicious is going on

 turned on verbose logging for linking and checked to see if anything suspicious is going on

Projects Properties > Linker > General

Show Progress = Display all progress messages (/VERBOSE)
(这个选项可以在build 的过程显示很多信息，比如link 到那个symble etc)

2. You could dump the library and see if there's something wrong there. From a Visual Studio command prompt:

C:\Program Files\Lua\5.2\lib>link /dump /linkermember:1 lua5.2.lib > lua_exps.txt

Where the outputs being piped it into a text file for easier readability; if the lib file is ok you will see _luaL_newstate, _luaL_openlibs, etc there.