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MetalCoder

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Link/Build Issues
« on: January 24, 2026, 03:55:02 am »
Hi all,

I recently downloaded the prebuilt CSFML of version 3. However when I checked against them in a DLL dependecy program, it said they were not on disk (I'm using Windows).

I came across this topic: https://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=29821.0

After building from source I was able to fix the issue. I thought I'd let the admins know, I think CSFML may need to be rebuilt.

NOTE: I'm using the DLLs or shared libraries.
« Last Edit: January 24, 2026, 04:02:23 am by MetalCoder »

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Re: Link/Build Issues
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2026, 07:32:00 am »
Thanks for letting us know!

When you say "it said they were not on disk", do you mean the SFML DLLs or something else?

We've intentionally switched to link SFML dynamically, because linking it statically causes issues with globals singletons for sf::Joystick.
You can just grab the latest SFML DLLs and it should work.
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Re: Link/Build Issues
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2026, 09:02:40 pm »
I meant the CSFML DLLs, that's what the error was saying. After I rebuilt them from source and added in the SFML DLLs from 3.0.2, it worked, the error went away. Thanks for rebuilding them!