I am trying to create a basic class to go with my project, and I keep getting the error "unresolved external symbol." I have no idea what is causing it.

I use VC++ 2010 express

JEngine.h

#ifndef JENGINE_H
#define JENGINE_H

#include "stdafx.h"

class JEngine
{
public:
	void Initialize();

};
#endif

JEngine.cpp

#include "JEngine.h"
#include "stdafx.h"

void JEngine::Initialize()
{
}

main.cpp

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "JEngine.h"

int main(int argc, char **argv){
	
	JEngine* gameInstance = new JEngine();
	gameInstance->Initialize();
	return 1;
	
}

JEngine.cpp

#include "JEngine.h"
#include "stdafx.h"
 

Should be

JEngine.cpp

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "JEngine.h"

Eww, nice catch. That is a nasty one to figure out. But explaining what kicked ya in the butt is a good idea also...

What jelly caught is basically a problem with precompiled headers that will get you quite often. A precompiled header is basically a memory dump of the symbol table at the point where the trigger file is accessed within the compile. With "automatically generated by xxxx", the default in VC I believe, the symbol table dump is likely to be triggered at the start of the header for JEngine.h before the class is defined and included in the symbol table dump. Reloading the symbol table overwrites anything which was already there and as such, in the cpp your class inclusion before the trigger include simply gets forgotten because the entire symbol table is loaded overwriting anything you may have already included.

This sounds confusing to me and I used to know it inside and out. Just do as jelly mentions and it will fix it. The details get pretty goofy.

This did not fix the problem... I am still confused!

More on precompiled headers in VS...

#include "stdafx.h"

must be the first line of code in each cpp file, it ignores everything until it sees the precompiled header include.

What error are you now getting? A few guesses

1) It's moaning about wmain or WinMain -> wmain means you have compiled the program using the Unicode char set instead of ANSI charset, this is in the options for the project. If it moans about WinMain, you didn't make a console project, make a new project that is a console app.

2) It worked, but after running it said there was an error. Don't return 1 from main, return 0 instead.

Those are just guesses though, please post the errors you are getting, not just "it doesn't work".

EDIT: Don't #include "stdafx.h" in header files either, that could be your problem...

Those are just guesses though, please post the errors you are getting, not just "it doesn't work".

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "JEngine.h"


void JEngine::Initialize()
{
}

#ifndef JENGINE_H
#define JENGINE_H

class JEngine
{
public:
	void Initialize();

};
#endif

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "JEngine.h"
}

int main(int argc, char **argv){

	JEngine* gameInstance = new JEngine();
	gameInstance->Initialize();

	return 0;
	
}

Try cleaning and doing a full rebuild. Do you really need the precompiled headers?