error LNK1181: cannot open input file

The linker is telling you that it is not able to locate a library that your project requires to link to.
The library path is relative, so the linker will search it first as a path relative to your project location and then as a path relative to each one of the library directories (as specified in Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories -> Library files).
You should check these paths for the library... This is all that we can say from the informations you give us.

In my case I did not choose Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories -> Library files. Instead I chose Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies to input the path to the lib file, and then I also had to ensure the build order was correct so I right-clicked the project, and choose Build dependencies -> Project dependencies to ensure that the dependent project was built before the project that required that library was built.