Compiling Irrlicht-0.7 Source

eeheeehe · Post by **eeheeehe** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:52 pm

Forgive me if this seems like an obvious question, but how do you compile the irrlicht-0.7 source code correctly?

I mean, the compiler creates all the *.o files correctly, but sometimes it won't generate a completed project. Other times it will just generate the libirrlicht.a file. But it will never actually generate a irrlicht.dll file. I am using Dev-C++ 5, and I have changed the directories to the local directories for the project (libjpeg, include, etc.) but the compiler still won't give me the dll file.

Is there a tutorial on the site for this, or is the compiler only supposed to generate a .a file?
And if so, what dll do I use? do I use the default irrlicht.dll?

DarkWhoppy · Post by **DarkWhoppy** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:11 pm

I've had the same problem. On both of my PC's.... can't get it to compile. I have the same problems as you... I just deal with it though

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:29 pm

Try doing a search on your computer for irrlicht.dll and see if it has compiled the binaries in a different place to the object files.

eeheeehe · Post by **eeheeehe** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:59 am

No, it doesn't compile it and place it anywhere special. The compiler just doesn't generate the file. Does anyone have a reason for why this happens, and how to fix it or get around it?

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:46 pm

What Windows version you're running ???
You can compile Irrlicht only on WinXP !!!
(W98 and W2000 doesn't work)

DarkWhoppy · Post by **DarkWhoppy** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:13 pm

I'm on WinXP

eeheeehe · Post by **eeheeehe** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:54 pm

ROFL!
OMG, no wonder it doesn't work... I am still running Windows98SE...

Okay... I need to upgrade my computer, but most other programs still will compile into a .exe file, but I did notice that sometimes the compiler will compile into a library irrlicht.a file.

Tyn · Post by **Tyn** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:58 pm

.a is the DevCpp equivilent of .lib ain't it?

eeheeehe · Post by **eeheeehe** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:02 am

yes, it is. But I was kind of expecting a ".dll" format... so the .a file threw me off.

Robomaniac · Post by **Robomaniac** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:36 am

why would irrlicht only compile on XP, i see no reason why 98 and 2000 wouldn't work, in fact, i compiled irrlicht successfully w/ 2000. It should be no different

eeheeehe · Post by **eeheeehe** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 2:48 am

same for me... most things compile well for me on 98SE, with a few exceptions that I cannot really explain...

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 1:41 am

Well, in fact you can compile all parts off Irrlicht with W98 or W2000 but dllwrap qould not work (linking all parts to one DLL) because the command line for this is to long and only XP can handle this...

eeheeehe · Post by **eeheeehe** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 4:48 pm

Okay, that I understand perfectly. Thank you Acki