Irrlicht Engine

Thanks, I will certainly take a detailed look at that - once I get past the initial hiccups.

Before diving into anything with DX, I first want to get the minimal Hello World program in C to build and run.
At the moment, I'm getting a linker error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'msvcrtd.lib'
which ...

I've bumped into a few problems trying to set up Code::Blocks for Irrlicht on a Windows 7 laptop
while trying to follow http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut_codeblocks.html

- The Code::Blocks installation was no problem.
- The link for MSVC toolkit doesn't work anymore, but I managed to find it ...