trouble with tutorial

[haxorphreak]

i downloaded the second tutorial (turorial #1) and modified it a little to work on my computer. using dev-C++, the linker gives an error code of 1 and says something about direct3d9 but it went away and the error code 1 remains. im using dev-C++ 4.9.9.1 and directx9 sdk december 2004 release. could it be that im not includign the libraries and header files incorrectly?

[bladder]

how are you including the libs?

And does directx9 come with the .a converted libs that dev c++ work with?

[haxorphreak]

i included the libs in the parameters under the project options. im pretty sure dev-C++ can use .libs, but ill look for .a

[bladder]

Here you go. You might want to go to tools->updates (i think) in devcpp to see what the latest packages for it are. But here's (http://www.g-productions.net/list.php?c=files_devpak) a link to some directx sdk dev packs (and others as well).

[haxorphreak]

i did that and the .as worked. thanks very much. but what if i wanted to use another sdk that had no devpack or .a files? whould i need to make one or can i load them?

[bladder]

You'd need to convert the .libs into .as. You can do this with a program called reimp that comes with mingw (the compiler that dev-cpp uses). You just call it from teh command line

reimp mylib.lib

and it will output a .a

[haxorphreak]

thank ya, spazuh!