trouble with tutorial

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?

how are you including the libs?

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

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

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 a link to some directx sdk dev packs (and others as well).

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?

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

thank ya, spazuh!