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Title: SFML 1.6 with Codeblocks 10.05 Linking error
Post by: AlGaN on December 05, 2010, 06:05:24 pm

Hello,

being a newbie with SFML I tried to integrate SFML 1.6 in Codeblocks 10.05 but get linker error, when compiling the template of Codeblocks for SFML.

Using precompiled SFML 1.6 SDK under Windows Vista (installed in D:\SFML-1.6) and copying MinGW gcc 4.4 packages over my standard MinGW installation (installed in D:\MinGW) I try to set Codeblocks global variable for SFML  "sfml' to:

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base: D:\SFML-1.6
include: D:\SFML-1.6\include
lib: D:\SFML-1.6\lib

then when I start a project using SFML template and state global variable

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(#sfml)

I get an error:

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The path you entered seems valid, but this wizard can't locate the following SFML's include file: Audio.hpp in it.

Can't I use the Codeblocks template project to start a SFML project?

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Edit: Okay I could get this working if I set the global variable include path to:

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include: D:\SFML-1.6\include

then the template generator works, but if I compile it could not find header files so I had to reset include path to:

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include: D:\SFML-1.6\include

but then I get a linker error:

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ld.exe||cannot find -lsfml-audio.dll|
||=== Build finished: 1 errors, 0 warnings ===|

I don't know very much about link libraries under GNU C, but I remembered that the link library name is something like
liblibrary.a or so, so why does it want to link against a DLL file. In my understanding DLL is for runtime.

Further the file sfml-audio.dll exists in the lib directory together with libsfml-audio.a so I don't understand why the linker doesn't find it?

Title: SFML 1.6 with Codeblocks 10.05 Linking error
Post by: Laurent on December 05, 2010, 08:35:40 pm

Don't use this template, it's totally broken. Use the SFML "getting started" tutorial to setup your project.

Title: SFML 1.6 with Codeblocks 10.05 Linking error
Post by: AlGaN on December 06, 2010, 02:39:05 pm

Hello,

okay, got the first tutorial code working with setting global include and lib directories. Is there any way to localize these settings (ie not to set SFML include/lib directories in global compiler settings). In my understanding this is the meaning of Codeblock's global variables.

Anyways, thanks for the help (though I hope the CB template is working again soon)

Title: SFML 1.6 with Codeblocks 10.05 Linking error
Post by: Laurent on December 06, 2010, 02:48:10 pm

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Is there any way to localize these settings (ie not to set SFML include/lib directories in global compiler settings).

There are also include/library search paths in the project settings.