Setting SFML up in VC 2013

[SlySherZ]

Hey guys. I spent more than 2 hours already trying to install SFML so... I decided to call for help.

I followed the tutorial (at least I think I did): got the source, ran CMake on it, and finally compiled INSTALL project.

New project -> setting everything up as requested and...
Error   1   error LNK1104: cannot open file 'sfml_audio-d.lib'

I checked the project definitions more than 20 times already. I tried to change Linker->Additional Directories to every folder on my pc that as that library, no success :S
Already tried to start from scratch, use different definitions on CMake, still not working.

Thanks!

[eXpl0it3r]

New project -> setting everything up as requested and...
Error   1   error LNK1104: cannot open file 'sfml_audio-d.lib'

Either it's a tyop on the post, or you didn't really try hard enough reading the tutorial.

It's obviously sfml-audio-d.lib and "cannot open file" means can not find the file.

[SlySherZ]

Well... the problem is that it should be able to find it, because I added it's location to Additional Libraries on Linker settings.

[select_this]

Well... the problem is that it should be able to find it, because I added it's location to Additional Libraries on Linker settings.

sfml_audio-d.lib does not equal sfml-audio-d.lib. Note that yours has an underscore and the correct version has a hyphen...

[SlySherZ]

Oh... what a stupid mistake!
Thank you very much

Well, after testing my program, I'm getting a lot of dll missing errors.
It compiles, but I get an error right after saying that OpenAl is missing. I installed OpenAl and now libsndfile-1.dll is missing. Did I forget something?

[zsbzsb]

I installed OpenAl and now libsndfile-1.dll is missing. Did I forget something?

Where did the tutorial say to install OpenAl?

To quote from the tutorial which you should be reading...

Now compile the project, and if you linked to the dynamic version of SFML, don't forget to copy the SFML DLLs (they are in <sfml-install-path/bin>) to the directory where your compiled executable is.

[Salva_R]

Hey, try this tutorial:
keepingupwithcode.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/getting-sfml-and-others-set-up-with-visual-studio-2013/

[zsbzsb]

Hey, try this tutorial:
keepingupwithcode.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/getting-sfml-and-others-set-up-with-visual-studio-2013/

Please don't be posting links to tutorials unless they are actually good. Just taking a quick look through that link I can tell you already it omits information and gives false information.

[Salva_R]

Hey, try this tutorial:
keepingupwithcode.wordpress.com/2013/11/11/getting-sfml-and-others-set-up-with-visual-studio-2013/

Please don't be posting links to tutorials unless they are actually good. Just taking a quick look through that link I can tell you already it omits information and gives false information.

Sorry, I don't mean to spread bad information; I linked it because I was having pretty much the same problems and that tutorial worked like a charm, I'll delete the comment if you find it appropiate.

[zsbzsb]

Sorry, I don't mean to spread bad information; I linked it because I was having pretty much the same problems and that tutorial worked like a charm, I'll delete the comment if you find it appropiate.

That is not needed, but you should know that the biggest thing wrong with that article is that it explicitly says to use VS11 binaries with VS 12 which is totally wrong.

[SlySherZ]

Thanks a lot  for your help guys! I didn't know I had to add those 2 static libraries to the .exe folder.

One more problem (hopefully the last one I need help to solve): when I try to the draw() function

Window.draw(text);

I get a linking error:    error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class sf::RenderStates const sf::RenderStates::Default" (?Default@RenderStates@sf@@2V12@B)

everything else is working fine, I don't know what's wrong ...

[eXpl0it3r]

Sounds like you're mixing debug and release modes. Or mixing static and dynamic linking.

Did you by any chance define SFML_STATIC while linking against dynamic libraries?

[SlySherZ]

I did. I don't really understand what dynamic and static means, so I'll check it out on the internet to see if I understand what I'm doing wrong

Btw I tried to change the properties of the project to have the the release dll's linked with the release version and the -d ones linked with the debug version. I get the same error on both

EDIT: From what I understood static means you have an exe doing everything, dynamic means you have dll + exe. For this project I do prefer static so I'll check if everything is set to static.

EDIT2: I'm getting an error by compiling INSTALL after setting everything up for static in CMake, so... I'll try to make it Dynamic instead xD

EDIT3: IT WORKED! You guys are my heroes