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codychilders

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This probably has a simple answer and I apologize for that, but I've spent several hours googling and searching this forum and trying things and I just can not get Visual Studio to talk to SFML as described in this tutorial: http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.3/start-vc.php

The code, error, settings, and visual studio version are all in the attached images.

Note: the Release version of the linker input settings looks the same, but they are all missing the "-d" suffix in the filename.

Any suggestions as to what I might be overlooking so I can start this project would be greatly appreciated!
« Last Edit: May 17, 2015, 04:04:44 am by codychilders »

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Re: Can't get Visual Studio 2013 to link to lib files
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2015, 03:20:58 am »
My guess would be that you created a Windows application instead of a console or blank one.

Try:
go to Project Settings->Configuration Properties->Linker->System and changing SubSystem to Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE)
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In Project Settings->Configuration Properties->Linker->Input, add to the list in Additional Dependencies these: sfml-main.lib (debug build) and sfml-main.lib (release build)

It does mention this in that tutorial (just below the piece of code) ;)
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Re: Can't get Visual Studio 2013 to link to lib files
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2015, 03:45:25 am »
This helped.  Now it gives me an error about sfml-graphics-d-2.dll is missing and won't run the program.  It is definitely in the folder though.

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Re: Can't get Visual Studio 2013 to link to lib files
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2015, 04:04:31 am »
I just tried putting all the DLLs in the folder and the demo worked.  Thanks for the help!

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Re: Can't get Visual Studio 2013 to link to lib files [SOLVED]
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2015, 09:54:01 pm »
You're welcome. Have fun with SFML! :)
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