Irrlicht source compilation ?

AnonymousNext · Post by **AnonymousNext** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:40 pm

Hi everybody,

I was just wondering if someone had managed to compile the Irrlicht source, is it even supposed to work. I get a lot of garbage message about unresolved externals (24 in total).

Example:
CGUIEnvironment.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall irr::gui::CGUIInOutFader::CGUIInOutFader(class gui::CGUIInOutFader::IGUIEnvironment *,class gui::CGUIInOutFader::IGUIElement *,int,class gui::core::rect<int>)" (??0C
GUIInOutFader@gui@irr@@QAE@PAVIGUIEnvironment@12@PAVIGUIElement@12@HV?$rect@H@core@2@@Z)
CSceneManager.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall irr::scene::CMeshManipulator::CMeshManipulator(void)" (??0CMeshManipulator@scene@irr@@QAE@XZ)
CSceneManager.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall irr::scene::CWaterSurfaceSceneNode::CWaterSurfaceSceneNode(float,float,float,class scene::CWaterSurfaceSceneNode::IMesh *,class scene::CWaterSurfaceSceneNode::ISceneNo
de *,class scene::CWaterSurfaceSceneNode::ISceneManager *,int,class scene::core::vector3d<float> const &,class scene::core::vector3d<float> const &,class scene::core::vector3d<float> const &)" (??0CWaterSurfaceSceneNode@scene@irr@@QAE@MMMPAVIMesh@12
@PAVISceneNode@12@PAVISceneManager@12@HABV?$vector3d@M@core@2@33@Z)

cheers,

Bryan

hearsedriver · Post by **hearsedriver** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:50 pm

I used the VC.NET workspace Niko provided with the source and had no problems creating the DLL. In case you created an own projekt, you might have not included all .cpp files.

Cheers.

AnonymousNext · Post by **AnonymousNext** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:59 pm

OK, I was just asking myself if Irrlicht hackers were mostly linux hackers, and in this case the VisualC++ file might be out of date.

Seems more that my version of VC is too old (VC6 SP5). If I ever manage to get the project to compile I'll try and send the corresponding VC6 file.

Cheers,

Bryan

hearsedriver · Post by **hearsedriver** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:03 pm

The VC7 project files are just textfiles, maybe they'll give you a clue. Maybe you're even able to copy&paste parts from the VC7 file into your VC6 workspace file ... but that's just a guess, I never had a look at the differences.

Cheers.

AnonymousNext · Post by **AnonymousNext** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:31 pm

Hi,

Sorry for sending so many messages in such a short time.

Seems that the conversion from VC.Net project to VC6 project went wrong, so you have to include every missing class in your project (look at the name of the class and find the corresponding .cpp), and CIrrDeviceStub.cpp, which will trigger errors for other class names.

Furthermore, the stupid VC6 compiler complains about non-initialization of i in CMeshManipulator::scaleMesh and CMeshManipulator::setVertexColorAlpha in certain cases unless you move declaration and initialization of i before the switch statement.
Same thing in CParticleSystemSceneNode::reallocateBuffers, with multiple declarations of i (take care to reinit between the two loops).

Everything should compile fine then.

HTH,

Bryan

rom++ · Post by **rom++** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:30 pm

ok, when i recompile, i get 2 errors because it can't find the file d3d8.h (direct x 8 ) ... do i need to get the directX SDK?

hearsedriver · Post by **hearsedriver** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:17 pm

rom++ wrote:do i need to get the directX SDK?

Guess.

rom++ · Post by **rom++** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:44 am

hearsedriver wrote:Guess.

well duh. nevermind - i was just wondering if there was any way of solving this without dl'ing the whole directX sdk since i was on the stupid-slow school server at the time.