Printable View
Im making a console app, but the idea is that there will be music in the background, but I can't get it to play, all I get are linker errors when I try to compile. Ive included the "mmsystem.h" file, and am using the PlaySound(); function, but it keeps on coming up with this error
Code:Consolechess.cpp: undefined reference to `PlaySoundA@12'
Hello,
You may need to include the Winmm library also:There are other ways to link libraries. Though, for reference, winmm.lib, is the library needed.Code:// Library
#pragma comment(lib, "winmm.lib")
// Headers
#include <windows.h>
#include <mmsystem.h>
- Stack Overflow
Close but no cigar, sorry, but the same thing happened, try again though, Im open to suggestions.
Stack Overflow is correct.
"#pragma comment(lib, "winmm.lib")" is an MSVC specific pragma for linking a library. If you are not using MSVC, then you'll have to link with the WinMM library using compiler or linker command line options.
If you are using Dev-C++ as your sig indicates, then simply add "-lwinmm" to the linker's parameters
gg
Do you have any idea on how to set it as a command line parameter in Dev-C++, because Ive never had the need to do it before?
Using Dev-C++ 4.9.8.0:
Project menu -> Project Options -> Parameters tab -> add "-lwinmm" in edit box under Linker.
gg
for some reason when I do it, it plays a different sound, it plays the same sound as if you compiled the code below (I can't think of a better way of explaining it), just try this code and listen for the sound, thats the sound I mean. It doesn't play the sound I want
Code:MessageBox(NULL, "TEST", "TEST", MB_OK);
Show us all the relevant code.
gg
I added the relavent .lib fileCode:#include <mmsystem.h>
Code:PlaySound("background.midi", NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC | SND_LOOP);
PlaySound() only supports waveform-audio files, which MIDI files are not.
Here are a couple of resources for playing MIDI files:
http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/G-M/mult...cle.php/c4715/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...vcsmpaudio.asp
gg