If this is the case, does this mean the problem I'm getting with DirectInput8Create@20 not being found is due to differences in C++ name mangling as another poster mentioned only C libraries being able to link.
Linking directly with the DirectX SDK .lib files cleared up all the unresolved errors apart from just this single one, but I'm only calling a few directx function calls as a test so presumably I'll come across the same problem when I start using more function calls. Thanks for the help, I feel I'm getting a few starting points to try out. --------------------------------- Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. http://www.q-games.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:18 AM Subject: Re: DirectX8/DirectInput + cygwin > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:10:49PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > >>>Dylan Cuthbert wrote: > >>>>I am linking directly with the .lib files supplied by Microsoft, and > >>>>all the Directx8 GUID references seem to link fine so does anybody have > >>>>any idea what the problem might be? > >>>> > >>>Why ? Link against those in /usr/lib. gcc doesn't understand the MS > >>>export libraries. > >> > >>Actually, gcc/ld should understand non-c++ import libraries. > > > >Is this a new feature or I was missing something all the time ? What's > >the point of tools which build .a files from dlls ? > > If you have an existing .lib import library it should work fine with ld. > This has been the case for years. > > This is not to say that there haven't been bugs over the years, but AFAIK, > there aren't any in the current version of cygwin. > > If it helps you can rename foo.lib to libfoo.a so that you can add -lfoo > to the command line. > > You can also link against the dll itself, in many cases: > > gcc -o foo.exe foo.c blah.dll > > cgf > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
