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

[Albert Ridolfi]

Hello Peter,

I was using the pre-compiled libraries, but now I have built them all by
myself, and this didn't fix the problem.

I modified just the main function and the signature, and removed #include
"stdafx.h", now it is just int main()

Yes, the libraries were added to the linker settings. 

The compiler output:
main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _Mix_LoadWAV_RW
referenced in function "int __cdecl SDL_main(void)" (?SDL_main@@YAHXZ)
main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _SDL_RWFromFile
referenced in function "int __cdecl SDL_main(void)" (?SDL_main@@YAHXZ)
MSVCRTD.lib(crtexe.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main
referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup

Thanks for the help
Albert




-----Original Message-----
From: sdl-bounces+arfx4=yahoo.co.uk at libsdl.org
[mailto:sdl-bounces+arfx4=yahoo.co.uk at libsdl.org] On Behalf Of Peter
Mulholland
Sent: 16 July 2006 03:02
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce)
Subject: Re: [SDL] compile error under vc++ - unresolved external symbol

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.


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