Compiling & Running Problems!

cm3rt · Post by **cm3rt** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:11 pm

Okay when building / compiling Irrlicht with VC++, I get no errors, buth when it finally finishes, this screen pops up.

(In case you can't see the picture, it says "Please specify the name of the executible file to be used for the debug session." in an inputbox.

I checked in my obj folders and there are no executable files. What do I have to do to run Irrlicht?

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:20 pm

Irrlicht itself is a library. When you build the Irrlicht project (on Windows), you get Irrlicht.lib and Irrlicht.dll files, not an executable file. Irrlicht - like all libraries and 3d or game engines - needs to be linked into an executable in order to actually do anything with it.

So instead of opening source\Irrlicht\Irrlicht*.sln (which just build Irrlicht), have a look at examples\BuildAllExamples*.sln.

This contains a project for the Irrlicht library itself, and 17 example/demo projects. Each of them links against Irrlicht and creates an executable that you can run. Start with 01.HelloWorld and work your way up.