Using DirectMusic with Irrlicht?

[Dark_Exodus]

Hi

I've been having problems trying to get DirectMusic to work with Irrlicht. I've created a music class that compiles ok with no errors, only when I include the Header file into another .cpp file that uses the Irrlicht header file, I get like 104 errors

Is there a compatibility issue or am I just doing something wrong.

[bappy]

i had the same problem when went to use direct show.
there is a conflict with the IUnknown class because directx use a class name IUnknown to.
so i have change all the unknown to unknown1 in irrlircht source and recompile the source code of irrlicht to recreate a new dll and lib, after that , no problem because irrlicht use IUnknown1, but i must recompile the source code with this trick every new version... someone maybe have another tips?

[pheadbaq]

bappy, could this be resolved by referencing the IUnknown class as "irr::IUnknown"? I wouldn't think the DirectMusic class libs would have an irr namespace also. If you could do that it would save from having to modify/recompile the entire Irrlicht source. I could be wrong , but that sounds like it would work to me.

[saigumi]

Or... the solution that requires no core changes to Irrlicht:

Don't use namespaces. The namespaces cause this confusion in which IUnknown to use.

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using namespace irr;

using namespace core;
using namespace scene;
using namespace video;
using namespace io;
using namespace gui;

Remove all of those. You will have to start referencing all elements by the full path. vector3df become irr::core::vector3df

[bappy]

well , i prefer use namespace instead of using long path and recompile the source one time (it take me 30 sec to change all IUnknown and recompile it).
by the way , at each new release i recompile the lib to have visual 7 optimisation so... doesnt matter to me

[Dark_Exodus]

Ok guys thanks for that.
I might just take out the namespaces.