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Hey guys hope you can help me here please, recently purchased the DarkPhysics package and I am having trouble compiling using the DarkPhysics functions when called.

I've been using DarkGDK with Visual C++ 2008 for a good few days now, compiled many projects without any trouble at all.

I also have DarkAI and DarkLights installed and working just fine.

I can see by using the search function this is a common problem for GDK users, on each opened thread, no resolution has come to fruition and I'm left struggling as to how to fix this.

I have done a reinstall of DarkPhysics, I have tried the DarkPhysics_GDK_261108 update and Dark_Physics_GDK_260509 to no avail, I have even uninstalled DarkPhysics and attempted to manual install the Dark_Physics_GDK_260509 by moving the appropriate files to the relevant directories and on each occasion I get the same results.

Here is the most basic of example code as I can produce




Here is the build log for the above code:
1>------ Build started: Project: Dark GDK - Game2, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Compiling...
1>Main.cpp
1>Linking...
1>Main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl dbPhyStart(void)" (?dbPhyStart@@YAXXZ) referenced in function "void __cdecl DarkGDK(void)" (?DarkGDK@@YAXXZ)
1>Debug\Dark GDK - Game2.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Users\Den\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\Dark GDK - Game2\Dark GDK - Game2\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>Dark GDK - Game2 - 2 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

I kind of recognised that error so I removed my physics cpp file but left the header and got this error(note, not using dark physics)



Now I know this is because it can't find the source file needed, its very similar to your message so I would say it can't find your Lib, are you sure you have it in the correct place and have told VS where it is?

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=149321&b=22

the above link might help.

Resolved.

Although the file "DarkPhysics.lib" which is in the correct location C:\Program Files (x86)\The Game Creators\Dark GDK\Lib\vs9 directory it still needed to be explicitly setup in the Additional Dependencies in the properties page of the project.

I also had to set "Multi-threaded (/MT)" as my runtime library in the C++ Code Generation Tab in the project properties.

I also had to manually copy the 4 dll's which came with DarkPhyics into the project folder.

Hope this helps others. it's a bloody nightmare for anyone new to the scene.

cheers

Moops