Linking Error: ALut.lib

1>------ Build started: Project: bitfighter, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '../lib/ALut.lib'
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 3 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

I have all of the win_include_do_not_distribute stuff, but I have no clue where ALut.lib would be from. I looked it up online and I can't find it. What is going on?

[raptor]

Hi,

At what changeset are you compiling?

You should know that anything after 015a may be severly borken...

[ZoombeR]

he made a post at

Thu May 26, 2011 1:47 pm

saying he was going to look at the code and see if he can modify something himself. So if he cloned a copy when he made the post he could probably be changeset 3f2e107ca36f
unless is using an old copy and just decided to modify that

[raptor]

I sure hope he didn't use that revision... anything after tag 'bitfighter-015a' we cannot really support since we are in heavy, heavy development (read broken code.)

If it was cloned at the latest, i suggest changing to changeset 'bitfighter -015a' and working from that:

  Code:

hg up bitfighter-015a

Ah. Right. I have 15a now. Never had to work with source control before, so it's all new to me.

First I got this error:

• error C2220: warning treated as error - no 'object' file generated c:\users\joseph\documents\bitfightersource\zap\gameconnection.cpp 1176 bitfighter
• warning C4101: 'gametypeName' : unreferenced local variable c:\users\joseph\documents\bitfightersource\zap\gameconnection.cpp 1176 bitfighter

Easy fix, right? I just deleted the declaration of the variable.

Now it's giving me 300+ linking errors in Debug mode and 40+ linking errors in Release mode. For example

• Error 283 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall Zap::Color::Color(float)" (??0Color@Zap@@QAE@M@Z) C:\Users\Joseph\Documents\BitfighterSource\zap\teamInfo.obj bitfighter
• Error 62 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: class Zap::Point __thiscall Zap::Rect::getExtents(void)" (?getExtents@Rect@Zap@@QAE?AVPoint@2@XZ) C:\Users\Joseph\Documents\BitfighterSource\zap\game.obj bitfighter

I've cleaned the bitfighter build and tried agian. I tried building in both debug and release mode. I have no clue what's going on, I am a C++ newbie, though I have used AS3 a lot and C# a little.

PS. I am using Visual C++ 2010 Express.

[Skybax]

I knew that reminded me of my C++ class for a reason…

[raptor]

Those linking errors are usually because a couple files weren't compiled because they are missing from the project. I think sam686 did this release and used the vc++ 2008 project, so it may be that certain files are missing from the vc++2010 project.

I have a hunch that at least these three class files may be missing from the vc++ 2010 project (from the zap/ folder):

  Code:

Color.cpp
Rect.cpp
Point.cpp

Looking through the errors, all of them have to do with those three classes. However, it seems that the files are included. They are all listed in the menus, none of them with "exclude from project" or anything

However, when I went into the folder "zap\Debug" and "zap\Release", there was no "Rect.obj", "Point.obj", or "Color.obj". I'm guessing all of those are supposed to be there. I tried "add existing files", but there was no change. I tried cleaning the project and compiling again, with no success.

[karamazovapy]

Can you try the vc++ 2008 project?

Got that one to work after both finding the solution file and adding tnl and libtomcrpt to the solution.

Thanks guys!