Thread: having trouble with dinput.h

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    Registered User Boomba's Avatar
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    Angry having trouble with dinput.h

    Hi

    I started implementing direct input into my program for the first time and started recieving a bunch of link errors while I have dinput.h included. NOTE: I have made the neccissary changes according to your sticky thread about BASETSD.H to fix compatability issues with visual C++ 6.

    these are the errors i recieve:

    Compiling...
    dx_init.cpp
    c:\program files\microsoft directx 9.0 sdk (october 2004)\include\dinput.h: DIRECTINPUT_VERSION undefined. Defaulting to version 0x0800
    dx_mesh.cpp
    Linking...
    dx_init.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _c_dfDIMouse
    dx_init.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _GUID_SysMouse
    dx_init.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _c_dfDIKeyboard
    dx_init.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _GUID_SysKeyboard
    dx_init.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _DirectInput8Create@20
    dx_init.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IDirectInput8A
    any ideas as to what I did wrong? i'm kinda stumped since msdn says al these things are apart of the dinput library.

    thanx in advance
    Boomba,

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    Registered User VirtualAce's Avatar
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    Well the first error is happening because you must define DIRECTINPUT_VERSION.

    Code:
    #ifndef CDINPUT
    #define CDINPUT
     
    //You MUST define this PRIOR to including dinput.h
    #define DIRECTINPUT_VERSION 0x0800
    #include <dinput.h>
     
     
     
     
    class CDInput
    {
    protected:
    IDirectInput8 *_pDI8;
    public:
    CDInput() { };
    		CDInput(HINSTANCE hinst) {Init(hinst);};
    ~CDInput() { };
     
    HRESULT Init(HINSTANCE hinst);
    		void ShutDown(void) {if (_pDI8) _pDI8->Release();};
    		IDirectInput8 *GetInterface(void) {return _pDI8;};
    };
    #endif
    The second error is happening because...I think....since you have not defined DIRECTINPUT_VERSION it is not sure which library to link with ---------- OR you are not correctly linking with dinput.lib or dinput8.lib. I had to link with both dinput8.lib and dinput.lib to get my code to work correctly.

    Trust me I was so frustrated with DirectInput when I created my classes I wished I had never ever heard of the thing. I ran into the same errors you did on my first try.

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    Registered User Boomba's Avatar
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    thank you very much Bubba! that got rid of all the link errors

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