I hate stupid things like this. I have upgraded to Visual Studio .NET 2005 from VS 2003 .NET. It used to compile fine. Now I'm getting the following linking error:
Error 21 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _DirectDrawCreateEx@16 referenced in function "bool __cdecl Graphics::InitDirectDraw(struct HWND__ *)" (?InitDirectDraw@Graphics@@YA_NPAUHWND__@@@Z) BlackJack.obj
I made sure all the directory info was the same in VS2005 but still no luck. Anybody have any idea why this is happening? I really wanted to get back to work on this project but my IDE isn't letting me.
Thanks
VS 2005 linking error
You need to add ddraw.lib in Project->Properties->Configuration Properties->Linker->Input->Additional Dependencies.
jfl.
jfl.
Did you link with the DirectDraw libraries? You must include ddraw.lib and dxguid.lib to your project, either from the project settings or by adding these lines to a header file:
#pragma comment(lib, "ddraw.lib");
#pragma comment(lib, "dxguid.lib");
Hope this helps.
EDIT: beat-me-up
#pragma comment(lib, "ddraw.lib");
#pragma comment(lib, "dxguid.lib");
Hope this helps.
EDIT: beat-me-up
Author
I actually had the #pragma lines already but still no luck. After looking at the error more carefully, I am noticing that it is choking on "struct HWND". Could it be another library that it's looking for?
Author
Unbelievable! It was a missing path in my search directories. Thanks for the help guys. Ok, back to work...
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