c++.windows.32-bits - Error 42: Symbol Undefined _DirectDrawCreate 12 (And I'm already
- SL (70/70) Mar 05 2004 I'm getting this error (Error 42: Symbol Undefined _DirectDrawCreate@12)...
- Jan Knepper (6/96) Mar 05 2004 --
- Jan Knepper (7/97) Mar 05 2004 Also... Trying to search for direct draw, ddraw or DirectX might help...
- SL (13/17) Mar 05 2004 Haven't heard of atomz before, but I spent about 3 hours googling and
- Jan Knepper (9/35) Mar 06 2004 Try this and see what it does for you.
- Phill (13/48) Mar 08 2004 Yes I did a fair while ago, in fact I believe I
- Jan Knepper (6/16) Mar 08 2004 Ask Nic Tiger... ;-)
- Phil Thompson (4/30) Mar 08 2004 SL, mail me as I may be able to assist.
I'm getting this error (Error 42: Symbol Undefined _DirectDrawCreate 12)
from the linker, despite the fact that I'm including ddraw.lib (which I
generated from c:\windows\system32\ddraw.dll using implib (Digital Mars
Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n)) in the compile-line.
Compile line:
sc.exe -mn win.cpp noctis.cpp noctis-0.cpp noctis-1.cpp noctis.def
user32.lib kernel32.lib winmm.lib ddrawex.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib
ddraw.lib gdi32.lib -oNoctis_D -dDEBUGBUILD -gp -s -Ju -L/co/ma -g -cpp
| more
(No, all those libs aren't needed, but since this didn't want to work, I
added anything that looked like it might remotely help)
The output after compilation is:
-----------------
link
win+noctis+noctis-0+noctis-1,Noctis_D,,user32+kernel32+winmm+ddrawex+advapi
32+shell32+ddraw+gdi32+user32+kernel32,noctis/co/noi/co/ma;
OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001 All Rights Reserved
win.obj(win)
Error 42: Symbol Undefined _DirectDrawCreate 12
--- errorlevel 1
-----------------
DirectDrawCreate does indeed exist in ddraw.dll, and it looks like it's
in the lib as well, or so I'm guessing since it's in the text in the lib
when I look at it in a hex-editor, though the text does not have a _
before DirectDrawCreate, or an 12 after it, anywhere
("DirectDrawCreate" is in the lib file several times).
These are in the includes:
#include <initguid.h>
#include <ddraw.h>
#include <winuser.h>
(P.S. MSDN says that I only need to import ddraw.h and include ddraw.lib
in the libraries to use DirectDrawCreate.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/ddraw7/direct
raw7/ddref_3h6f.asp
)
I was having a problem where IID_IDirectDraw2 didn't exist before, but
solved it by adding #include <initguid.h> there... #define INITGUID
didn't work (I tried that first), but #include <initguid.h> did.
Also, I had to define DDSURFACEDESC2 (A struct) myself in order to use
it, since it wasn't in ddraw.h either.
Also, IID_IDirectDraw7 didn't (doesn't) seem to exist either, and I had
(have) no effective way to fix that, since I would have to know the
massively long number it's made from....
-----
I thought that the problem might have been the ddraw header file being
out of date, so I downloaded the DirectX SDK, and installed it, and took
the ddraw.h from there and threw it in the program source folder, and
changed the #include <ddraw.h> to #include "ddraw.h" - And, well,
DDSURFACEDESC2 exists now, so I commented out mine, but it still won't
link, still giving that error about _DirectDrawCreate 12. :/
I tried implib /system, too, by the way, and didn't notice any
difference. Also tried running implib on a ddraw.def I got from
http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/mingw32/home/janjaap/mingw32/platfo
m-SDK/def/ddraw.def
(found via google), which didn't solve the linking problem either.
(I managed to get it to link by hex-editing the .lib to say
_irectDrawCreate, and changing the function name in the ddraw.h and the
source files which use it to irectDrawCreate (no D), but of course, the
program won't run. :P)
I suppose the question I should be asking is "How do I make DM stop
adding that _ before the function name and the 12 after the function
name, because the .dll and the .lib don't have it?"
Oh, P.S. I tried fiddling with the declaration of DirectDrawCreate in
ddraw.h (changing it from WINAMP to __cdecl, __stdcall, FAR PASCAL, etc,
but it didn't help. What? I was desparate!).
(I also tried searching old posts here, now that I have mozilla set up
to read from the news-server, but I didn't find much except something
that indicated that someone might have to send me a ddraw.lib to fix the
problem, since apparently implib doesn't work on 100% of DLLs or
something? (It seemed to work fine on all the other (system) DLLs I used
it on, and I didn't use /system... Oh well.)
Mar 05 2004
Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.us>
Which IMPLIB did you use?
SL wrote:
I'm getting this error (Error 42: Symbol Undefined _DirectDrawCreate 12)
from the linker, despite the fact that I'm including ddraw.lib (which I
generated from c:\windows\system32\ddraw.dll using implib (Digital Mars
Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n)) in the compile-line.
Compile line:
sc.exe -mn win.cpp noctis.cpp noctis-0.cpp noctis-1.cpp noctis.def
user32.lib kernel32.lib winmm.lib ddrawex.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib
ddraw.lib gdi32.lib -oNoctis_D -dDEBUGBUILD -gp -s -Ju -L/co/ma -g -cpp
| more
(No, all those libs aren't needed, but since this didn't want to work, I
added anything that looked like it might remotely help)
The output after compilation is:
-----------------
link
win+noctis+noctis-0+noctis-1,Noctis_D,,user32+kernel32+winmm+ddrawex+advapi
32+shell32+ddraw+gdi32+user32+kernel32,noctis/co/noi/co/ma;
OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001 All Rights Reserved
win.obj(win)
Error 42: Symbol Undefined _DirectDrawCreate 12
--- errorlevel 1
-----------------
DirectDrawCreate does indeed exist in ddraw.dll, and it looks like it's
in the lib as well, or so I'm guessing since it's in the text in the lib
when I look at it in a hex-editor, though the text does not have a _
before DirectDrawCreate, or an 12 after it, anywhere
("DirectDrawCreate" is in the lib file several times).
These are in the includes:
#include <initguid.h>
#include <ddraw.h>
#include <winuser.h>
(P.S. MSDN says that I only need to import ddraw.h and include ddraw.lib
in the libraries to use DirectDrawCreate.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/ddraw7/direct
raw7/ddref_3h6f.asp
)
I was having a problem where IID_IDirectDraw2 didn't exist before, but
solved it by adding #include <initguid.h> there... #define INITGUID
didn't work (I tried that first), but #include <initguid.h> did.
Also, I had to define DDSURFACEDESC2 (A struct) myself in order to use
it, since it wasn't in ddraw.h either.
Also, IID_IDirectDraw7 didn't (doesn't) seem to exist either, and I had
(have) no effective way to fix that, since I would have to know the
massively long number it's made from....
-----
I thought that the problem might have been the ddraw header file being
out of date, so I downloaded the DirectX SDK, and installed it, and took
the ddraw.h from there and threw it in the program source folder, and
changed the #include <ddraw.h> to #include "ddraw.h" - And, well,
DDSURFACEDESC2 exists now, so I commented out mine, but it still won't
link, still giving that error about _DirectDrawCreate 12. :/
I tried implib /system, too, by the way, and didn't notice any
difference. Also tried running implib on a ddraw.def I got from
http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/mingw32/home/janjaap/mingw32/platfo
m-SDK/def/ddraw.def
(found via google), which didn't solve the linking problem either.
(I managed to get it to link by hex-editing the .lib to say
_irectDrawCreate, and changing the function name in the ddraw.h and the
source files which use it to irectDrawCreate (no D), but of course, the
program won't run. :P)
I suppose the question I should be asking is "How do I make DM stop
adding that _ before the function name and the 12 after the function
name, because the .dll and the .lib don't have it?"
Oh, P.S. I tried fiddling with the declaration of DirectDrawCreate in
ddraw.h (changing it from WINAMP to __cdecl, __stdcall, FAR PASCAL, etc,
but it didn't help. What? I was desparate!).
(I also tried searching old posts here, now that I have mozilla set up
to read from the news-server, but I didn't find much except something
that indicated that someone might have to send me a ddraw.lib to fix the
problem, since apparently implib doesn't work on 100% of DLLs or
something? (It seemed to work fine on all the other (system) DLLs I used
it on, and I didn't use /system... Oh well.)
--
ManiaC++
Jan Knepper
But as for me and my household, we shall use Mozilla... www.mozilla.org
Mar 05 2004
Also... Trying to search for direct draw, ddraw or DirectX might help...
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp1000ce79&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=directx
SL wrote:
I'm getting this error (Error 42: Symbol Undefined _DirectDrawCreate 12)
from the linker, despite the fact that I'm including ddraw.lib (which I
generated from c:\windows\system32\ddraw.dll using implib (Digital Mars
Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n)) in the compile-line.
Compile line:
sc.exe -mn win.cpp noctis.cpp noctis-0.cpp noctis-1.cpp noctis.def
user32.lib kernel32.lib winmm.lib ddrawex.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib
ddraw.lib gdi32.lib -oNoctis_D -dDEBUGBUILD -gp -s -Ju -L/co/ma -g -cpp
| more
(No, all those libs aren't needed, but since this didn't want to work, I
added anything that looked like it might remotely help)
The output after compilation is:
-----------------
link
win+noctis+noctis-0+noctis-1,Noctis_D,,user32+kernel32+winmm+ddrawex+advapi
32+shell32+ddraw+gdi32+user32+kernel32,noctis/co/noi/co/ma;
OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 7.50B1
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989 - 2001 All Rights Reserved
win.obj(win)
Error 42: Symbol Undefined _DirectDrawCreate 12
--- errorlevel 1
-----------------
DirectDrawCreate does indeed exist in ddraw.dll, and it looks like it's
in the lib as well, or so I'm guessing since it's in the text in the lib
when I look at it in a hex-editor, though the text does not have a _
before DirectDrawCreate, or an 12 after it, anywhere
("DirectDrawCreate" is in the lib file several times).
These are in the includes:
#include <initguid.h>
#include <ddraw.h>
#include <winuser.h>
(P.S. MSDN says that I only need to import ddraw.h and include ddraw.lib
in the libraries to use DirectDrawCreate.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/ddraw7/direct
raw7/ddref_3h6f.asp
)
I was having a problem where IID_IDirectDraw2 didn't exist before, but
solved it by adding #include <initguid.h> there... #define INITGUID
didn't work (I tried that first), but #include <initguid.h> did.
Also, I had to define DDSURFACEDESC2 (A struct) myself in order to use
it, since it wasn't in ddraw.h either.
Also, IID_IDirectDraw7 didn't (doesn't) seem to exist either, and I had
(have) no effective way to fix that, since I would have to know the
massively long number it's made from....
-----
I thought that the problem might have been the ddraw header file being
out of date, so I downloaded the DirectX SDK, and installed it, and took
the ddraw.h from there and threw it in the program source folder, and
changed the #include <ddraw.h> to #include "ddraw.h" - And, well,
DDSURFACEDESC2 exists now, so I commented out mine, but it still won't
link, still giving that error about _DirectDrawCreate 12. :/
I tried implib /system, too, by the way, and didn't notice any
difference. Also tried running implib on a ddraw.def I got from
http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/mingw32/home/janjaap/mingw32/platfo
m-SDK/def/ddraw.def
(found via google), which didn't solve the linking problem either.
(I managed to get it to link by hex-editing the .lib to say
_irectDrawCreate, and changing the function name in the ddraw.h and the
source files which use it to irectDrawCreate (no D), but of course, the
program won't run. :P)
I suppose the question I should be asking is "How do I make DM stop
adding that _ before the function name and the 12 after the function
name, because the .dll and the .lib don't have it?"
Oh, P.S. I tried fiddling with the declaration of DirectDrawCreate in
ddraw.h (changing it from WINAMP to __cdecl, __stdcall, FAR PASCAL, etc,
but it didn't help. What? I was desparate!).
(I also tried searching old posts here, now that I have mozilla set up
to read from the news-server, but I didn't find much except something
that indicated that someone might have to send me a ddraw.lib to fix the
problem, since apparently implib doesn't work on 100% of DLLs or
something? (It seemed to work fine on all the other (system) DLLs I used
it on, and I didn't use /system... Oh well.)
--
ManiaC++
Jan Knepper
But as for me and my household, we shall use Mozilla... www.mozilla.org
Mar 05 2004
Jan Knepper wrote:Also... Trying to search for direct draw, ddraw or DirectX might help... http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp1000ce79&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=directxHaven't heard of atomz before, but I spent about 3 hours googling and trying to figure this out. Jan Knepper wrote:Which IMPLIB did you use?SL wrote:using implib (Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n)I also tried (after making that post) VCPP6SE's 'link /lib /convert ddraw.lib' on the VCPP6SE version of ddraw.lib, followed by 'coff2omf' (From Borland C++ 5.5, since I didn't see the DM version for download anywhere) - The resulting lib file was about 2 KB (The ones made by implib were 4 KB when I imported from the ddraw.def which I mentioned and 4.5 KB when I imported from ddraw.dll), and didn't work any better than the others (i.e. I got the same error message from the linker after I tried it).
Mar 05 2004
Try this and see what it does for you. http://www.digitalmars.com/~jan/ There have been others in the past that worked with DirectX/Direct Draw and got it working. SL wrote:Jan Knepper wrote:-- ManiaC++ Jan Knepper But as for me and my household, we shall use Mozilla... www.mozilla.orgAlso... Trying to search for direct draw, ddraw or DirectX might help... http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp1000ce79&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=directxHaven't heard of atomz before, but I spent about 3 hours googling and trying to figure this out. Jan Knepper wrote: > Which IMPLIB did you use? SL wrote: > using implib (Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n) I also tried (after making that post) VCPP6SE's 'link /lib /convert ddraw.lib' on the VCPP6SE version of ddraw.lib, followed by 'coff2omf' (From Borland C++ 5.5, since I didn't see the DM version for download anywhere) - The resulting lib file was about 2 KB (The ones made by implib were 4 KB when I imported from the ddraw.def which I mentioned and 4.5 KB when I imported from ddraw.dll), and didn't work any better than the others (i.e. I got the same error message from the linker after I tried it).
Mar 06 2004
Yes I did a fair while ago, in fact I believe I had the same problem, and when I posted on this group my problem was solved, by some good soul who sent me two LIB's, that he created. I beleive Nic Tiger was his name. I dont know that I have permission to pass these on though. what can I do? Phill. "Jan Knepper" <jan smartsoft.us> wrote in message news:c2cuf7$fh0$1 digitaldaemon.com...Try this and see what it does for you. http://www.digitalmars.com/~jan/ There have been others in the past that worked with DirectX/Direct Draw and got it working. SL wrote:help...Jan Knepper wrote:Also... Trying to search for direct draw, ddraw or DirectX mighthttp://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp1000ce79&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=directxHaven't heard of atomz before, but I spent about 3 hours googling and trying to figure this out. Jan Knepper wrote: > Which IMPLIB did you use? SL wrote: > using implib (Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n) I also tried (after making that post) VCPP6SE's 'link /lib /convert ddraw.lib' on the VCPP6SE version of ddraw.lib, followed by 'coff2omf' (From Borland C++ 5.5, since I didn't see the DM version for download anywhere) - The resulting lib file was about 2 KB (The ones made by implib were 4 KB when I imported from the ddraw.def which I mentioned and 4.5 KB when I imported from ddraw.dll), and didn't work any better than the others (i.e. I got the same error message from the linker after I tried it).-- ManiaC++ Jan Knepper But as for me and my household, we shall use Mozilla... www.mozilla.org
Mar 08 2004
Phill wrote:Yes I did a fair while ago, in fact I believe I had the same problem, and when I posted on this group my problem was solved, by some good soul who sent me two LIB's, that he created. I beleive Nic Tiger was his name. I dont know that I have permission to pass these on though. what can I do?Ask Nic Tiger... ;-) -- ManiaC++ Jan Knepper But as for me and my household, we shall use Mozilla... www.mozilla.org
Mar 08 2004
SL, mail me as I may be able to assist. Regards, Phil SL wrote:Jan Knepper wrote:Also... Trying to search for direct draw, ddraw or DirectX might help... http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp1000ce79&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=directxHaven't heard of atomz before, but I spent about 3 hours googling and trying to figure this out. Jan Knepper wrote: > Which IMPLIB did you use? SL wrote: > using implib (Digital Mars Import Library Manager Version 7.6B1n) I also tried (after making that post) VCPP6SE's 'link /lib /convert ddraw.lib' on the VCPP6SE version of ddraw.lib, followed by 'coff2omf' (From Borland C++ 5.5, since I didn't see the DM version for download anywhere) - The resulting lib file was about 2 KB (The ones made by implib were 4 KB when I imported from the ddraw.def which I mentioned and 4.5 KB when I imported from ddraw.dll), and didn't work any better than the others (i.e. I got the same error message from the linker after I tried it).
Mar 08 2004