Code::Blocks setup for Irrlicht under Win7

[Grebulon]

I've bumped into a few problems trying to set up Code::Blocks for Irrlicht on a Windows 7 laptop
while trying to follow http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut_codeblocks.html

- The Code::Blocks installation was no problem.
- The link for MSVC toolkit doesn't work anymore, but I managed to find it somewhere else.
- Got the Microsoft .Net framework
- Not sure about the MS plattform SDK (found an x86 download somewhere, but I don't think it's for Win7)
- The danielpattom.com links are also no longer working

Could someone point me in the right direction in regards to the platform SDK and DX SDK?
Thanks!

/* Apologies if the solution is already posted in another thread (I've searched but so far without success). */

[Bl00drav3n]

I don't know if this is still up to date, but maybe this will help you: http://irrlicht3d.org/wiki/index.php?n= ... 9WithMinGW

[Grebulon]

Thanks, I will certainly take a detailed look at that - once I get past the initial hiccups.

Before diving into anything with DX, I first want to get the minimal Hello World program in C to build and run.
At the moment, I'm getting a linker error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'msvcrtd.lib'
which is probably happening because I haven't installed the platform SDK yet.

I think I'll try http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... px?id=3138
unless there are good reasons not to use that.