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SFML projects / Re: SFGUI (0.1.0 released)

« on: June 10, 2013, 07:11:17 pm »

So for a more proper setup I guess I'll have to learn about CMake and building stuff myself. Thanks for your advice, hopefully I didn't come across too hostile 

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SFML projects / Re: SFGUI (0.1.0 released)

« on: June 10, 2013, 05:59:58 am »

I did have the suffixes right in the linker input. And the include and lib folders were added into the include and library directories for the project respectively. Those steps came straight from the tutorials so I have triple checked them. Googling sfgui visual studio didn't turn up much for me.

I wouldn't want to be copying files around anyway, but the SFGUI's SFML lib folder is missing 2 files, and when I left it set to static linking it couldn't resolve some external call (with the -s in all the file names in the linker and the preprocessor directives working, since that worked with SFML alone), and I guess I'm ignorant as to how to get the .dll files it then needs as it dynamically links in the same folder as the .exe I am using. That actually reminds me, none of the example .exe's run unless I copy all those .dll's into the example folder, so those weren't made static for some reason either?

Trying to use the right terms here, hope I've gotten my questions across. Thanks for responding to someone just looking to get into more C++.

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SFML projects / Re: SFGUI (0.1.0 released)

« on: June 10, 2013, 04:53:47 am »

I've been having trouble setting up a project to use SFGUI. Pretty noobish to C++ but not other languages so I'm missing the linking part.

Using VS2012 I can setup a project that will show the hello world SFML example. Got it separate for debug and release, and I have it statically linked as that's the only way I could get it to work. That all works fine.

Then I can add onto the project and add in the include, lib, and static directive for the SFGUI files. Eventually I got these to work fine and can do an #include <SFGUI/SFGUI.hpp> or whichever the one that loads everything was. The project still runs since the code didn't actually use any SFGUI.

But then if I change the code to use an SFGUI window too, I can't get it to work anymore. It ends up not being able to find the .lib files that the SFML is already able to find. The only thing that worked for me was manually putting the 14 .dll files from SFML and SFGUI into the folder that the .exe will be saved in, and also putting the sfml-system.lib from my original SFML download into the SFML that is included with your download. Leaving anything set to the static libs like I had it with just SFML and no SFGUI would not resolve...

So in summary, I can get it to work finally by just using all dynamic linking and copying over some missing files. So as a noob to C++ what am I missing here that would let me just easily do static linking like my SFML project before I add SFGUI?