problem compiling the engine this is the second post i made

[bradford789]

ok im having a problem here and i have no idea why it is happening im followed your tut to the letter and this is what i keep on getting when i go to compile

Switching to target: Release
Linking dynamic library: ..\..\bin\Win32-visualstudio\Irrlicht.dll
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '..\..\bin\Win32-visualstudio\Irrlicht.dll'
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 2 seconds)
1 errors, 0 warnings


and this is what i get when i reopen the project


19:53:40: The path 'C:changes.txt' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ECullingTypes.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:EDebugSceneTypes.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:EDriverTypes.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:EGUIElementTypes.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ESceneNodeAnimatorTypes.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ESceneNodeTypes.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IAnimatedMesh.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IAnimatedMeshMD2.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IAnimatedMeshMD3.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IAnimatedMeshMS3D.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IAnimatedMeshSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IAnimatedMeshX.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IAttributeExchangingObject.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IAttributes.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IBillboardSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ICameraSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ICursorControl.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IDummyTransformationSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IEventReceiver.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IFileList.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IFileSystem.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGPUProgrammingServices.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIButton.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUICheckbox.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIColorSelectDialog.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIComboBox.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIContextMenu.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIEditBox.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIElement.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIEnvironment.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIFileOpenDialog.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIFont.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIImage.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIInOutFader.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIListBox.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIMeshViewer.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIScrollBar.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUISkin.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUISpriteBank.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIStaticText.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUITabControl.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIToolbar.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IGUIWindow.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IImage.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IImageLoader.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ILightSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ILogger.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IMaterialRenderer.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IMaterialRendererServices.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IMesh.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IMeshBuffer.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IMeshCache.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IMeshLoader.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IMeshManipulator.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IMeshSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IMetaTriangleSelector.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IOSOperator.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IParticleAffector.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IParticleEmitter.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IParticleSystemSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IQ3LevelMesh.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IQ3Shader.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IReadFile.H' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ISceneCollisionManager.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ISceneManager.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ISceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ISceneNodeAnimator.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ISceneNodeAnimatorCollisionResponse.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ISceneNodeAnimatorFactory.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ISceneNodeFactory.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ISceneNodeMeshLoader.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IShaderConstantSetCallBack.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IShadowVolumeSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ITerrainSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ITextSceneNode.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ITexture.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ITimer.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:ITriangleSelector.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IUnknown.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IVideoDriver.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IVideoModeList.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IWriteFile.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IXMLReader.h' contains too many ".."!
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19:53:40: The path 'C:IrrCompileConfig.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:IrrlichtDevice.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:Keycodes.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:S3DVertex.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:SAnimatedMesh.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:SColor.h' contains too many ".."!
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19:53:40: The path 'C:SIrrCreationParameters.h' contains too many ".."!
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19:53:40: The path 'C:SLight.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:SMaterial.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:SMesh.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:SMeshBuffer.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:SMeshBufferLightMap.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:SMeshBufferTangents.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:SParticle.h' contains too many ".."!
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19:53:40: The path 'C:SceneParameters.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:aabbox3d.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:coreutil.h' contains too many ".."!
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19:53:40: The path 'C:fast_atof.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:heapsort.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:irrAllocator.h' contains too many ".."!
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19:53:40: The path 'C:irrlicht.h' contains too many ".."!
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19:53:40: The path 'C:plane3d.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:position2d.h' contains too many ".."!
19:53:40: The path 'C:quaternion.h' contains too many ".."!
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19:53:40: The path 'C:triangle3d.h' contains too many ".."!
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19:53:40: The path 'C:readme.txt' contains too many ".."!

[Virion]

Maybe I'm wrong, but why you link this?

Linking dynamic library: ..\..\bin\Win32-visualstudio\Irrlicht.dll

shouldn't you link your compiler to Irrlicht.lib?

by the way you posted at the wrong forum.

[rogerborg]

Indeed. LNK1104 is a MSVC link-time error. The file that you want to link with is either:

\lib\Win32-visualstudio\Irrlicht.lib

or

\lib\Win64-visualstudio\Irrlicht.lib

Depending on whether you want to target 32 or 64 bit Windows.

Note that most Irrlicht sample files contain the line:

#pragma comment(lib, "Irrlicht.lib")

This is a MSVC compiler directive which links with the correct library (assuming that the lib paths are correct, which they should be for all the sample apps). You shouldn't have to add a link to the library.

Help us to help you. What project are you opening, and what IDE are you opening it in?

I'm going to assume that you're using Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express. If so, then I suggest that you do this:

open examples\BuildAllExamples.sln

Build and run example 01. Hello World.

This should build and run without any modifications or problems. If it doesn't, then you have a problem with your build environment. Please give us more information on that i.e. what compiler you are using, and what other libraries and SDKs you have installed, e.g. DirectX SDK.

If you jump on IRC, you can get real time help.