Author Topic: Problems linking dynamically (Read 3061 times)

fallout · « **on:** March 07, 2011, 04:25:23 am »

I've followed tutorials, searched the threads and made changes, recompiled for VS 2010 and so on but I can't make the following error go away:

fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'sfml-system-d.lib'

For linker input I've used: sfml-system-d.lib;

I've added SFML_DYNAMIC;

for the preprocessor defintion. I've added all the appropriate paths for the include and library directories. I also have the .dll files in the project directories, even for the DEBUG folder. Haven't done a release build yet.

Static linking works perfectly fine and without errors but I would like to link dynamically. Any suggestions?

EDIT: sorry, this should have been posted in general.

Laurent · « **Reply #1 on:** March 07, 2011, 07:29:27 am »

Are you sure that you recompiled all configurations of SFML (there are 4: debug static, debug DLL, release static and release DLL)?

fallout · « **Reply #2 on:** March 07, 2011, 08:41:42 pm »

BlueMagic · « **Reply #3 on:** September 11, 2011, 08:54:11 pm »

I'm having the exact same problem. I tried everything but couldn't get it to work.

EDIT: While doublechecking the path where the libs are supposed to be found, I realized that there's only one .lib : sfml-main-d.lib. All of the others are not there, which is strange since supposedly they compiled correctly. Any ideas?

Laurent · « **Reply #4 on:** September 11, 2011, 08:57:17 pm »

Sorry to ask such a stupid question, but have you checked that the file is actually located in the linker path that you defined in your project settings?

BlueMagic · « **Reply #5 on:** September 11, 2011, 09:03:22 pm »

Quote from: "Laurent"

Sorry to ask such a stupid question, but have you checked that the file is actually located in the linker path that you defined in your project settings?

Yeah, it was not a stupid question at all, haha (check the edit). The thing is, only sfml-main was correctly compiled into a .lib. A problem with the VS solution?

Laurent · « **Reply #6 on:** September 11, 2011, 09:06:17 pm »

The automatic conversion to VS2010 projects has some problems, output paths may not be consistent. You should check in the SFML projects where the libraries are generated.

coolhome · « **Reply #7 on:** September 11, 2011, 10:46:31 pm »

Yeah the conversion messes with the output dirs. The DLL debug names for the lib files are the same as DLL release lib files. Messy and confusing. I just compiled them for you and uploaded them. Enjoy

http://coderzilla.com/libraries/SFML-1/binaries/1.6-MSVC10/

Laurent · « **Reply #8 on:** September 12, 2011, 08:04:21 am »

You should put these files on the wiki, so that I can redirect people there when there are issues with VC++ 2010