Error (active) E0120 return value type does not match the function type

[nitinyadav91]

HI,
I am trying to build libde265 on Visual studio 2019 but getting below error while building source code.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error (active) E0120 return value type does not match the function type libde265 C:\workspace\heif\libde265-1.0.8\libde265\de265.cc 43

Could you please let me know your suggestion.

[farindk]

Can you send the full error output?
Does it help to replace that line with the following?

return static_cast<const char*>(LIBDE265_VERSION);