The problem is that you can't teach the .dsp files to conditionally link with a library. The only way to simulate conditional linking is to provide a dummy library if the real one isn't available.
That's not quite true. You can do conditional linking using:
#if SOME_CONDITION #pragma comment(lib, "libname.lib") #endif
inside a source file in the project instead of putting the lib in the .dsp. I'm not 100% sure that this would work in this particular case.
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