[C++] Running A Program Under VS Express 2008

[Clyde]

Cheers hellfire and co.

I don't know what i am supposed to do once in the linker / dependancies, when I click onto the [...] it doesnt show paths or anything I recognize. Most readme's / tuts dont teach you this stuff, perhaps I need to buy a How To Use Visual Studio IDE For Dummies.

[hellfire]

Don't click [...] and just enter the filename of the .lib in the line in front of it.

[Clyde]

Thanks heaps dude, I doubt very much if I'd be making much progress without your help. Very much appreciated. Im so used to basic languages that do pretty much all of this for you.

Is the ALT+F7 linker-> input bits set globally for all projects? Meaning I need to change for each project so the exe doesnt include unwanted libs.

Thanks for your time and valuable help,
Clyde

[Jim]

The project properties are specific to an individual project.  If you had more than one project in the solution, each of them could have its own settings.

Jim

[Clyde]

this is bizarre i keep on getting can not find dplayx.lib and ive added it into the linker properties. I wonder if it's no longer present in the March 2009 version of the Direct X SDK.
This is with the DarkGDK, and i have followed the installation guide for setting the includes and libraries. which refers to the DX SDK for August 2007.

[hellfire]

Seems to be a known problem...

[TinDragon]

I never installed the darkgdk because it required the old dx sdk, that and because its more or less a wrapper of the darkbasic langauge which I hated the syntax for 

[Clyde]

Im not bothering with the Dark GDK, as like you say it uses an out of date version of Direct X, plus even though I did find a download of dplayx.lib, lots more conflicts.