Unresolved external symbol

[kipkuhmi]

Hi everyone,

I tried to build my CivGameCoreDLL following Kael's tutorial and using CodeBlocks.

When doing this, I'm getting four "unresolved external symbol" errors (listed below). Now I understand this message as the linker needing some more cpp or h files. But which ones are needed?

E.g., "unresolved external symbol __imp__GetKeyState" sounds like a windows command to me, doesn't it?

Thanks for any help.



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CyGlobalContextInterface4.cpp
CyHallOfFameInfo.cpp
CyHallOfFameInterface.cpp
CyInfoInterface1.cpp
CyInfoInterface2.cpp
CyInfoInterface3.cpp
CyMap.cpp
CyMapGenerator.cpp
CyMapGeneratorInterface.cpp
CyMapInterface.cpp
CyPlayer.cpp
CyPlayerInterface1.cpp
CyPlayerInterface2.cpp
CyPlot.cpp
CyPlotInterface1.cpp
CyRandomInterface.cpp
CyReplayInfo.cpp
CySelectionGroup.cpp
CySelectionGroupInterface.cpp
CyStructsInterface1.cpp
CyTeam.cpp
CyTeamInterface.cpp
CyUnit.cpp
CyUnitInterface1.cpp
FAssert.cpp
FDialogTemplate.cpp
_precompile.cpp
Linking dynamic library: ..\Beyond the Sword\Assets\CvGameCoreDLL.dll
Creating library ..\Beyond the Sword\Assets\CvGameCoreDLL.lib and object ..\Beyond the Sword\Assets\CvGameCoreDLL.exp
CvDLLWidgetData.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__GetKeyState@4 referenced in function "public: void __thiscall CvDLLWidgetData::doResearch(struct CvWidgetDataStruct &)" (?doResearch@CvDLLWidgetData@@QAEXAAUCvWidgetDataStruct@@@Z)
CvGame.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__timeGetTime@0 referenced in function "public: virtual void __thiscall CvGame::read(class FDataStreamBase *)" (?read@CvGame@@UAEXPAVFDataStreamBase@@@Z)
CvPlayer.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__timeGetTime@0
CvGameCoreDLL.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__timeEndPeriod@4 referenced in function _DllMain@12
CvGameCoreDLL.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__timeBeginPeriod@4 referenced in function _DllMain@12
..\Beyond the Sword\Assets\CvGameCoreDLL.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 4 unresolved externals
Process terminated with status 1 (22 minutes, 17 seconds)
6 errors, 0 warnings

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[kipkuhmi]

I should add, I'm running Vista 64 bit. Could this cause the problem? It seems to me it has sth to do with the Windows API.

 

[kipkuhmi]

Oh my, this one really drives me insane.

For example, the linker obviously doesn't find "timeGettime", which for all that I know is a winmm.lib command. I've added the folder which contains winmm.lib to the Compiler Settings --> Directories --> Linker list, but still the "unresolved external symbol" message appears.

 

[kipkuhmi]

Me again ...

I guess I found the solution myself, rather by accident.

In Settings --> Compiler --> Directories --> Linker I had to re-arrange the order of the included lib directories. I guess it really has sth to do with the x64 / x86 versions, and the compiler chose the wrong one. Whatever, the built terminated smoothly now without any further error messages.

 

[Fanatic Demon]

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