I am Having trouble Compiling with DirectX

I am learning the basics here. I am trying to blt a bitmap to the screen. But the problem I am having is not the code. The code compiles, but when I try to link the code during compile I get this error...

---------Configuration: techs revenge - Win32 Debug-------------
Linking...
TechRevengine.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _IID_IDirectDraw7
Debug/techs revenge.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.

techs revenge.exe - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)


Any insight on how to ratify the situation woulb be great.

I am using Visual C++ Introductory Edition version 6.0

Thanks

Did you add ddraw.lib ( or ddraw7.lib, I don't recall which is the name ) to your libraries?

Goto Project Menu->Settings Select your project, click the "Link" tab, and add "ddraw.lib" to the list of libraries available.

Alternatively ( I prefer this ), you can add this line of code to your header files that use ddraw :

Code:

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#pragma comment(lib,"ddraw.lib")

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thats clever. so you can do that with any lib(dsound.lib, etc)?

Yes, you can. Compilers have other #pragmas so you might find it useful to look into it's options.

-Challenge Stupidity... I love that... lmao