[SDL] compile error under vc++ - unresolved external symbol

[Peter Mulholland]

Albert Ridolfi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed SDL 1.2 into my VC++ 2005 (Windows) and it worked fine, and
> later I tried to install SDL Mixer. First I used the precompiled lib files
> available for download on the SDL website, and I tried to compile the
> following code:
<snip>

VS2005 might have changed the symbol format. You are best building 
SDL/SDL_mixer yourself.

> int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])

Don't do this. Your code will not be handled correctly by the SDL entry 
point code.

> The compiler gave me two errors:
> Error	1	error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _Mix_LoadWAV_RW
> referenced in function _wmain	sdltest2.obj	
> Error	2	error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SDL_RWFromFile
> referenced in function _wmain	sdltest2.obj

Are you adding the libs to your linker settings?
Some headers use #pragma (lib, "blah.lib") to make this unneccesary. SDL 
doesn't because that isn't portable.


Pete.