AP Classes, won't work! Anyone familiar?

[Unregistered]

For the longest time I've been trying to get the AP classes to work with Visual C++ 6.0, but I can't. Anyway, I used some installer to put them in the right directory and such, and it worked...I think. The compiler finds the ap classes, but I can't really use them. Here's a little example along with the error message I was slapped down with.


#include <iostream.h>
#include <apstring.h>

void main ()
{
apstring thiswontwork("I will never be displayed");
cout << thiswontwork;
}



--------------------Configuration: APJunk2 - Win32 Debug--------------------
Compiling...
source.cpp
Linking...
source.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall apstring::~apstring(void)" (??1apstring@@QAE@XZ)
source.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class ostream & __cdecl operator<<(class ostream &,class apstring const &)" (??6@YAAAVostream@@AAV0@ABVapstring@@@Z)
source.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall apstring::apstring(char const *)" (??0apstring@@QAE@PBD@Z)
Debug/APJunk2.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

APJunk2.exe - 4 error(s), 0 warning(s)

[xlnk]

apstring is assigned differently then string.

apstring thiswontwork = "I will never be displayed";

and if you still get some errors, go ahead and include this:

#include <apstring.cpp>

also, depends.

[tim545666]

That's weird, because I use the AP classes on VC++, Dev C++4, and Turbo C++ 4.5 and 3.0, and the classes work fine on all of them.

[SilentStrike]

Add apstring.cpp to the project, or include it like above.. those should fix the problems.

Perhaps the compilation, linking, and loading process should be taught before students actually delve into code.. so they understand what compiler error messages like "undefined reference" mean.