Thread: Including The Right DLLs

A little while ago I was asking why my game wouldn't work on other people's PCs. I was told this was because they didn't have the required DLLs that come with MSVC++ Express, but that it was possible to link these with the other files. What DLLs do I need to do this as I have found nothing on the internet and how do I link them?

Thanks

Bumfluff

You have to build in release mode instead of debug mode. Debug mode requires DLLs that come with MSVC++ while release mode doesn't.

Generally speaking, you shouldn't have to join DLLs with your programs unless they are from a library you had to download (i.e. SDL, Ogre...) or if you made your own DLL. Otherwise, you don't have to join DLLs.

Well when I put it into release mode I got about 13 errors and when I tried just Multi-Threaded as that was the only one that would work other than multi-threaded Debug with DLL. When someone with MSVC++ Exp. they got this error:

Code:

This application has failed to start because d3dx9_30.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Any idea how to fix that one.

What were the errors in Release mode ? Debug mode kinds of patches your errors and Release mode doesn't do anything to prevent your errors so it's normal that you get more errors. d3dx9 is obviously Direct3D 9; therefore, I conclude that this person doesn't have Direct X 9 installed and that you used DirectX 9 to code.

Thing is they do have Direct X 9 installed, but they don't seem to have all teh Direct X files that I have.

Code:

1>.\GonnaWork.cpp(55) : error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'const char [12]' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\GonnaWork.cpp(94) : error C2664: 'CreateWindowExW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [12]' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\GonnaWork.cpp(107) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [28]' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\GonnaWork.cpp(121) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [31]' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\GonnaWork.cpp(128) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [28]' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>game.cpp
1>.\game.cpp(48) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [29]' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\game.cpp(55) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [32]' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>dxinput.cpp
1>dxgraphics.cpp
1>.\dxgraphics.cpp(20) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [28]' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\dxgraphics.cpp(50) : error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [31]' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\dxgraphics.cpp(71) : error C2664: 'D3DXGetImageInfoFromFileW' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char *' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\dxgraphics.cpp(96) : error C2664: 'D3DXLoadSurfaceFromFileW' : cannot convert parameter 4 from 'char *' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\dxgraphics.cpp(118) : error C2664: 'D3DXGetImageInfoFromFileW' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char *' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast
1>.\dxgraphics.cpp(137) : error C2664: 'D3DXCreateTextureFromFileExW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'char *' to 'LPCWSTR'
1>        Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

Those are the errors I get from release mode.

When I change to using Multi-Byte Character Set or Not Set I get twelve errors instead all saying that things are undefined.