Access Golang code from a C project in Visual Studio 2019 - c

Question

I have a C project in Visual Studio 2019 and I would like to use certain functions written in Go within it.
I have a test file called ctest.go which has the following contents:
package main
import (
"C"
"fmt"
)
//export printInt
func printInt(x int) {
fmt.Printf("Hello from go: %d", x)
}
func main() {}
I'm generating a static library with this command:
go build -buildmode=c-archive ctest.go
I end up with two files, ctest.a and ctest.h which I include in my VS project. I include ctest.h in my code and immediately get these errors:
identifier "__SIZE_TYPE__" is undefined
expected a ';'
expected a ';'
The generated header file contains the following lines which caused it:
typedef __SIZE_TYPE__ GoUintptr;
typedef float _Complex GoComplex64;
typedef double _Complex GoComplex128;
I replaced __SIZE_TYPE__ by size_t and just commented out the _Complex lines to stop the errors.
Now my VS project compiles while including the header file. But as soon as I try to use my go function like this:
printInt(5);
I get 2 warnings followed by 6 errors:
Warning LNK4078 multiple '.text' sections found with different attributes (60600060) AWO F:\AWO\AWO\ctest.a(go.o)
Warning LNK4078 multiple '.text' sections found with different attributes (60600060) AWO F:\AWO\AWO\ctest.a(go.o)
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol __imp___iob referenced in function __cgo_preinit_init AWO F:\AWO\AWO\ctest.a(000005.o)
Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __imp___iob AWO F:\AWO\AWO\ctest.a(000006.o)
Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol __imp___iob AWO F:\AWO\AWO\ctest.a(000007.o)
Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol _fprintf referenced in function _x_cgo_sys_thread_create AWO F:\AWO\AWO\ctest.a(000005.o)
Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol _fprintf AWO F:\AWO\AWO\ctest.a(000007.o)
Error LNK1120 2 unresolved externals AWO F:\AWO\Debug\AWO.exe 1
This is where I'm stuck. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or should be doing differently to properly use the library generated with go.

Answer 1

project properties -> linker -> input -> additional dependencies
legacy_stdio_definitions.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)
add source code
C
FILE* __cdecl __iob_func(void)
{
FILE _iob[] = { *stdin, *stdout, *stderr };
return _iob;
}
C++
extern "C" { FILE __iob_func[3] = { *stdin,*stdout,*stderr }; }