Re: Building in Visual Studio 2010

Hello again (note that I'm not a Windows programmer...),

On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:19 PM, John Doe wrote:

> Thanks. That worked. But just curious how can I link with the dll's instead?

AFAIK, you can't. A DLL file is a *shared* library containing the code. A LIB file is a simple glue to this shared library.

- If, for some reason, you don't want to use the LIB file, you can load the DLL yourself (LoadLibrary) and find the procs address (GetProcAddress). See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686944(v=VS.85).aspx
for an example.

- If you want to *statically* link with OpenAL, you can't use the DLL file. You must either get a *static* version of OpenAL, or compile OpenAL sources within your project.

Raphaël

> 
> 2010/8/23 Raphaël Lemoine <[email protected]>
> Hello,
> 
> On Aug 23, 2010, at 8:35 PM, John Doe wrote:
> 
> > I apologize if this has been asked a million times before but there seems to be no way to search the mailing archives short of browsing through every thread. I have used OpenAL previously in a linux environment but I'm new to using it in a Visual Studio project.
> >
> > In Project Options in Visual Studio 2010 I have added C:\Windows\System32 to the VC++ library paths and added the include directories in the include paths also. I've also added OpenAl32.dll to Configuration Properties-->Linker-->Input-->Additional Dependencies. However when I try to build my project I keep getting the error:
> >
> >       "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\OpenAL32.dll : fatal error LNK1107: invalid or corrupt file: cannot read at 0x2B0"
> >
> 
> You must add the LIB file to the dependencies, not the DLL file.
> 
> > If I remove OpenAl32.dll from the Additional Dependencies option all I get is 'unresolved symbol' errors for the OpenAL function calls in my code.
> >
> > Can someone help me out with linking OpenAL in visual Studio 2010?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Javad
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Raphaël
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