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Started by JwayneT August 27, 2000 05:00 PM

5 comments, last by JwayneT 23 years, 7 months ago

JwayneT

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August 27, 2000 05:00 PM

Good Evening fellow code scribes,

I was compiling my code over to MSVC++ 5.0 pro and I ran into some interesting errors. I first wrote my code in Borland, but I wrote in in ASCII format so it compiles fine. It''s the linker that is giving me trouble. I keep getting ''unidentified symbol _main'' and ''unidentified symbol DirectDrawCreate@12''. Now I ran into these errors in Borland, but I think that the solution is compiler specific.

Now for the next question, how do I properly install DirectX 7.0a SDK onto my Computer? a.h{text-decoration:none;color:blue;};a.h:hover{text-decoration:underline;background:red;};

Snootchie Bootchies!

-=CF=-

a.h{text-decoration:none;color:blue;};a.h:hover{text-decoration:underline;background:red;};

Why is it called a hot water heater? Isn't it cold when it goes in the tank?

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Facehat

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August 27, 2000 05:12 PM

To fix the first problem, you need to add the Direct Draw libraries to your project. Go to Project->Settings then to the Link tab and add dxguid.lib and ddraw.lib to the list.

Installing the DX7 SDK is pretty straighforward: just run the install program

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JwayneT

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August 28, 2000 01:22 PM

I think I have allready added the .lib files but I will check again. And thanx for the 7.0a help, I didn''t look at it yet and I thought that it was just a bunch of headers that I had to put in, like in borland.

a.h{text-decoration:none;color:blue;};a.h:hover{text-decoration:underline;background:red;};

Snootchie Bootchies!

-=CF=-

a.h{text-decoration:none;color:blue;};a.h:hover{text-decoration:underline;background:red;};

Why is it called a hot water heater? Isn't it cold when it goes in the tank?

[email=jtaylor@gtemail.net" class="h]-=CF=-[/email]

Mezz

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August 28, 2000 01:47 PM

Your undefined symbol problem may stem from the fact that your project is not set up correctly, it should not be a win32 console app, it should just be a win32 app.

As Senshi said, make sure the libs are added and you may also want to add the header files into your project too, and make sure the tools->options->directories tab has your DX SDK directory in it as the first in line.

-Mezz

n0p3x

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August 29, 2000 04:56 AM

JwayneTI thought that it was just a bunch of headers that I had to put in, like in borland.

Huh? I use Borland and didn't have to do anything like that. Well, other than make sure I used the correct libs but that wasn't difficult.

Regards,
David Stubbs

P.S. How do you do that quote thing you all seem to do?

Edited by - n0p3x on August 29, 2000 5:58:15 AM

Regards,Dave

MarkO

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August 29, 2000 07:18 AM

Well microsoft in its *infinite wisdom* includes an outdated..at least now it is...version of DX libs with the compiler
Thus you have to make sure the newer lib and include folders are above the older folders so that it pulls from the correct DX libs and not the ones installed with the compiler

dwarfsoft

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August 29, 2000 07:20 AM

That outdated version would be DX 3.0. Yeah, I have seen about 20 questions like that come through here in the past month (at least 20

) and the solutions I gave were all as simple as that... It stuffs sooo many people up that it just makes me dislike M$ more

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