linker error vc1003

[MikeR]

I've been searching the web now for 5 hours (using google and microsoft.com) and have found a whole bunch of people with this same problem.

Linking dynamic library: C:\Irrlicht\source\..\Release\Irrlicht.dll
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libci.lib'
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 2 seconds)
1 errors, 0 warnings

Some say to add it to the ignore list in the linker part of the compiler.
The problem is,....No one says How, or Where exactly.

I'm using vc 2003 (the freebie) and codeblocks to compile Irrlicht.
I have microsoft developers sdk as well as the DirectX library.

Anyone have any advice on how to fix this error?
Am I missing a library somewhere?

[bami]

I've heard of this before.

Put the libci.lib in your ignore library bit (or whatever, its a list of stuff to ignore while linking)

Then it should compile good.

I have no idea if this works, since I hate the stupid 200x express edition because it doesn't link the stuff very well together (and you have to use some ini editing or so to get it to work right), and I'm using msvc++ 6

[MikeR]

I have no clue where that would be, but, what I did was to open the irrcompileconfig.h and commented out directX8. It worked.