Hi everyone, I am having an annoying time setting up SFML 2.1, and think I need some extra pairs of eyes.

I have used the library before on visual studio 2008 without incident, but I have been unable to make it work on 2010 or 2012 express editions.

At first I thought SFML was compiled for the wrong IDE, so I downloaded the source and made them using CMake. Once the libraries were compiled, I tried again, but got exactly the same errors.

Currently I am focused on getting it to run in debug mode and am linking statically. I have included the SFML_STATIC deceleration and in linker input have made sure to link the -s-d libraries for static debug.

Here is the error list, there are 43

What does your source look like? Are you linking to -lsfml-main-s-d as well? This is a Windows OS linker to handle the lack of WinMain.

Although it looks like it can't find the .lib files.

Hi Dragonsoulj, thanks for taking an interest.

My source code is the demo code as given by the SFML tutorial, here it is.

#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

int main()
{
    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(200, 200), "SFML works!");
    sf::CircleShape shape(100.f);
    shape.setFillColor(sf::Color::Green);

    while (window.isOpen())
    {
        sf::Event event;
        while (window.pollEvent(event))
        {
            if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
                window.close();
        }

        window.clear();
        window.draw(shape);
        window.display();
    }

    return 0;
}

With regards to the exact libraries I am including, here they are.

sfml-graphics-s-d.lib; sfml-system-s-d.lib; sfml-window-s-d.lib; sfml-main-d.lib;

I am also providing the directories to include and lib, in the Project properties window, see below

E:\Programming\SFML_For2012Express\SFML-2.1\include

E:\Programming\SFML_For2012Express\SFML-2.1\lib

Having checked a million times, all needed files are in these 2 locations, and the directories themselves are correct.

To my knowledge there is no static version of the main-d.lib, in the past this version has always worked fine on VS2008 Pro edition, using the version of SFML compiled for that IDE of course.

I have used SFML many times before on the other IDE, for which it still works, I just cannot fathom why it wont work.

Thank you so much BitMaster, included that and all the errors vanish. I don't understand why I didn't have to include that in the other IDE's I have used SFML with but thank you so much.

Could be the linker order. Should be Graphics, Window, Main, System. Audio and Network can go before Graphics.