Integrating ODE

[benoit808]

I've been trying to integrate Irrlicht and ODE using the tutorial at http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut_ode.html
However, I keep getting linker errors eventhough I am pretty confident that I included all the libraries as needed. It looks like the tutorial is for old verions of Irrlicht and ODE. Is there some more recent code out there?
Were you able to get this tutorial to work with Irrlicht 1.1 and ODE 0.7?

Thanks

[vitek]

Post the linker errors.

[benoit808]

>> Error 31 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "private: static struct dxWorld * Irrlicht::m_TheWorld" (?m_TheWorld@Irrlicht@@0PAUdxWorld@@A) Irrlicht_test.obj
>> Error 32 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "private: static struct dxSpace * Irrlicht::m_TheSpace" (?m_TheSpace@Irrlicht@@0PAUdxSpace@@A) Irrlicht_test.obj
>> Error 33 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "private: static struct dxJointGroup * Irrlicht::m_TheJointGroup" (?m_TheJointGroup@Irrlicht@@0PAUdxJointGroup@@A) Irrlicht_test.obj
>> Error 34 fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals F:\Projects\Irrlicht\Debug\Irrlicht_test.exe

[vitek]

Looks like you have something like this in your code...

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class Irrlicht
{
   //...

private:
   static dxWorld* m_TheWorld;
   static dxSpace* m_TheSpace;
   static dxJointGroup* m_TheJointGroup;
};

The problem is that you have declared the static variables in the header, but you need to define them.

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// this goes in a .cpp file, hopefully where the Irrlicht class functions are defined.
dxWorld* Irrlicht::m_TheWorld = 0;
dxSpace* Irrlicht::m_TheSpace = 0;
dxJointGroup* Irrlicht::m_TheJointGroup = 0;

Travis

[benoit808]

That did it!
Thought that was some library issues but it was just a plain lack of C++ skills

Thanks a lot vitek