Missing winmm.lib, cant compile

[doghousedean]

Hello,

Im a bit of a programmer and would like to contribute to this project, but i've not done any C++ before, Im a fluent Blitz3D user and have been programming for years so i can do it just never in C++.

Anyway, i cant get the code to compile, after a couple of other 'missing file' errors i just cant get this one to go away

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2>Linking...
2>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'winmm.lib'

Anyone got any ideas, ive gone through the wiki and it still dont work.


Thank peeps, and what a good project original TT was the first real PC game i played donkeys years ago...

Dean

[doghousedean]

just a quick addition, im on Vista Ultimate. i have installed the SP1 for Vista for C++ Express edition

[CMircea]

Did you follow the guide on the wiki?

[doghousedean]

Hello,

Anyone got any ideas, ive gone through the wiki and it still dont work.

yep!

Driving me mad as i want to get stuck in, even tho i have only done a bit of C++ with halflife modding years ago

[Rubidium]

It looks like the Platform SDK properly isn't installed properly.

Have you seen http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/Micro ... 2B_Express ?

[doghousedean]

see above post,

I will go through it again tho to make sure

[doghousedean]

I was missing a line in the libraries section,

no i get lots (57) of unresolved external function errors

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win32.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__ShowCursor@4 referenced in function "bool __fastcall MyShowCursor(bool)" (?MyShowCursor@@YI_N_N@Z)

Arrggh!

[Rubidium]

see above post,

I will go through it again tho to make sure

Well, the page I linked you was hardly findable on the wiki; you had to go via the MSVC6 page, now it's a little better.

And for your other problem (you could've searched first): http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=31131

[doghousedean]

Woohoo Fixed it.

Now for the hard part.

[erdnis]

Heh. That other topic was mine, but I didn't get a solution to my problem. I just gave up, assuming that nobody knew what the problem was and how to fix it.
So, doghousedean, how did you fix it?

[doghousedean]

Basically i check the paths were ok, not copying the ones from the wiki but browsing to find the right paths for the libs and includes etc.

The last problem i had witht he unresolved external symbol was because i changed the wrong file with instead of editing corewin_express.vsprops i was editing corewin.vsprops hence i was missing all the winmm.lib etc entries.

fixed as soon as i edited it.

[CMircea]

Basically i check the paths were ok, not copying the ones from the wiki but browsing to find the right paths for the libs and includes etc.

If you install in default location then they'll be the same. I'll change the wiki article to say that.

[erdnis]

Basically i check the paths were ok, not copying the ones from the wiki but browsing to find the right paths for the libs and includes etc.

The last problem i had witht he unresolved external symbol was because i changed the wrong file with instead of editing corewin_express.vsprops i was editing corewin.vsprops hence i was missing all the winmm.lib etc entries.

I still can't get it to work. I know I must have done something wrong, but I have no idea what I've done. From what doghousedean said (and by searching a bit around on the internet), it seems that these kind of errors come when one haven't edited the corewin_express.vsprops file. The problem is, I have edited that file. This is how it looks like:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<VisualStudioPropertySheet 
	ProjectType="Visual C++" 
	Version="8.00" 
	Name="Core Windows Libraries">
	<Tool 
		Name="VCLinkerTool" 
		AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib" />
</VisualStudioPropertySheet>

But I get the exact same error messages if I remove all those AdditionalDependencies and that line just says:

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AdditionalDependencies="kernel32.lib"

I don't think the error is with the VC++ Directories. If that was the problem, I would have gotten some kind of "Cannot open file" error, right?

If you install in default location then they'll be the same. I'll change the wiki article to say that.

Not for me. The default locations for me was:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2
and
C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (December 2006)

[CMircea]

Thanks, I updated the DirectX SDK link to the April 2007 SDK.