[ENet-discuss] 64 Bit project compliation issue

[Lee Salzman]

The timeBeginPeriod and so forth linker issues mean that you need to add 
"winmm.lib" to your list of dependencies.

Lee

Alex Milstead wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to Enet usage. For starters, I'd like to say how impressed I 
> am with the minimalist approach to UDP sockets and client/server 
> connection issues you've taken. It makes the library very attractive 
> and really easy to implement.
>
> Unfortunately, however, I've had some issues.
>
> Basic setup: I have a server program running on Linux 32-bit 
> (compiling and lib usage was EASY here), that runs great.
> I also have a client program (for some initial testing) on Windows 
> 64-bit, using Visual Studio 2008 Pro. Oddly enough, following the 
> instructions to include ws2_32.lib before compiling, then compiling 
> works great. Switching to a DLL build, however, causes issues.
>
> In any case, I tried out the .lib build, enet builds fine and I can 
> include it in my project, but I get odd linker errors when I try to 
> build/run the program, basically to the effect of 
> "enet.lib(win32.obj)  : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol", 
> referencing the "timeBeginPeriod, timeEndPeriod, etc..." methods that 
> are called inside of in enet_initialize, deinitialize, and enet_time_get.
>
> I'm pretty lost as to what to do at this point. I haven't tried it on 
> a 32-bit windows OS yet, but that's mainly because I don't have one 
> readily accessible. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex Milstead
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