cannot find -ld3dx9.lib

no-reply@allegro.cc (Desmond Taylor) — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:15:51 +0000

I am trying to link staticly and it comes up with an error saying it cannot find -ld3dx9.lib.

What am I doing wrong?

no-reply@allegro.cc (Arthur Kalliokoski) — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:17:23 +0000

The -l prefix implies gcc, and the .lib extension implies MSVC. If gcc, try -ld3dx9, for MSVC try d3dx9.lib.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Desmond Taylor) — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:23:18 +0000

This is my current list.

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I just tried it without .lib at the end and it still failed.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Arthur Kalliokoski) — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:25:40 +0000

I thought gcc used *.a files, so you'd want to find libd3dx9.a, not d3dx9.lib.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Desmond Taylor) — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:27:12 +0000

#SelectExpand
 1ld.exe||cannot find -ld3dx9.a|
 2||=== Build finished: 1 errors, 0 warnings ===|

no-reply@allegro.cc (Arthur Kalliokoski) — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:28:56 +0000

You don't add the .a when linking.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Desmond Taylor) — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:30:53 +0000

When I don't include anything but "d3dx9" I still get an error :/

Nevermind, I found the problem. I forgot to install DirectX SDK xD

no-reply@allegro.cc (Edgar Reynaldo) — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:55:51 +0000

You're using GCC as your compiler in code::blocks, not MSVC, so you should be linking against *.a files, not *.lib files. Did you download the wrong binary package for Allegro 5? Look in mingw/lib and allegro/lib for the correct archive files. Also, you want the allegro libraries to be linked before addons and before the extra libraries :

Link Libraries :
-----------------
allegro*.a
allegro_addons*.a
extra_libs*.a

no-reply@allegro.cc (Desmond Taylor) — Wed, 04 May 2011 01:07:02 +0000

No i have the correct one but the MingW distro didnt have the directx 9 libs so I just downloaded the SDK. Still not working but yea, I know not to link against .lib I don't know what I was doing when I even did that xD.

Anyway's, I am going to uninstall Code::Blocks and install mingw from the distro the code::blocks so that I get the files.