Newton physics and Dev-Cpp

Boz the virtual being · Mon Apr 05, 2004 2:30 pm

Hi,
Has anybody succesfully compiled the great Mercior's tutorial on integrating Newton with Irrlicht (http://www.mercior.com/tut-newton.shtml) on the Dev-Cpp compiler? I include all the libraries and headers and I get linker errors. It seems it does not see the Newton functions.

schick · Post by **schick** » Mon Apr 05, 2004 2:45 pm

Well, the library was compiled using visual c++. I read somewhere something

about name mangling that gcc and msvc using different "names" for the functions in their libs so the functions cannot be found. Furthermore, i read that you can migrate those msvc libs to gcc libs. Ask the wise google about msvc convert gcc library

Boz the virtual being · Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:26 pm

That's what I thought

I'll ask the wise google or the newton himself.

Electron · Post by **Electron** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:45 pm

Interesting that you guys have had a problem. I compiled Mercior's tutorial fine

schick · Post by **schick** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:44 pm

Sorry, yeah, there is no problem at all. If you want to link the newton lib file using the -l parameter of gcc then you have to rename it to libnewton.a. Otherwise just link the *.lib file directly.