no lib files

[spiff88]

im new here and have been folliowing the dev C++ tutorial to get irrlicht setup and im to the point where u have to link the lib files and it shows the file its under which is DEVc somthing like that but all i have is linux and 2 visualc++ folders under my lib folder where do i get the devc++ folder?

[Acki]

there must also be a Win32-gcc folder...

[spiff88]

ya there is but the tut says to go into irrlicht-0.3\lib\DevCpp and there should be these files which u extract:

libIrrlicht.a
libjpeg.a
libz.a

i can go into the WIN32-gcc and there will only be libIrrlicht.a what do i do?

[fireside]

That tutorial is a little old, I think. You just need to link to libIrrlicht.a By the way, if you get the D3D to work, let me know how you did it. I can only get opengl working.

[Acki]

remember DevCpp is just an IDE what really depends is the compiler and DevCpp and Code::Blocks (what's really better then Dev) are using the MinGW/GCC compiler by default, so you'll need this gcc lib and the gcc DLL...

but you won't be able to use D3D with it, you'll have to recompile the DLL with DX for this !!!

All this was asked 1000 times, so have a search on the forum...

[fireside]

but you won't be able to use D3D with it, you'll have to recompile the DLL with DX for this !!!

All this was asked 1000 times, so have a search on the forum...

I have the compiled dll's from version 1.3 for directX8 and directX9, but neither one works for whatever reason. Searches aren't at all that simple. Most of the stuff that comes up isn't even related and you can wade through tons of material and not find what you're looking for. Irrlicht is user friendly to a point but I've been going nuts looking at all the different event handlers and trying to make sense of it. It's all right to remind someone to do a search once in a while where it's something that has obviously been asked recently, but it's getting to be almost every post.

[Acki]

I have the compiled dll's from version 1.3 for directX8 and directX9, but neither one works for whatever reason.

then you probably did something wrong...

Searches aren't at all that simple. Most of the stuff that comes up isn't even related

then you should learn how to search...

and you can wade through tons of material and not find what you're looking for.

that's because every asks this question without doing a search first, exactly what I ment by "1000 times asked"...

Well, I did the search for you and it took me less than 5 minutes to find this thread:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... 3&start=75

Also you should first read the FAQs:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... php?t=2153
then you'd find this link:

USING DX IN DEV C++ | READ THIS NOW AND STOP ASKING THIS |
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... php?t=1700

like i said, asked 1000 times...

[fireside]

Hmm, apparently the dx9 for 1.3 isn't compatable with 1.31 and someone offered a download. Almost worth the search haranguing for that. By the way, I probably spent over an hour searching on this site before I made that comment, which wasn't even a question. Not for that, but for just about everything I'm doing right now. Of course I don't know how to search, I'm just learning the API. Probably a helpful suggestion would go a lot further than one more "do a search" comment.

[Acki]

"do a search" or even better "learn how to search" is a helpful suggestion, as far as it makes all simpler for all participants and usually you'll find the answers fatser then and it prevents the forum from flooding with one and the same question again and again...

[fireside]

Well, your very helpful anyway. Sometimes it's easy to forget what it was like starting out.