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Compiling Error

by none · in Torque Game Engine · 07/15/2011 (2:38 pm) · 13 replies

I'm getting only this error every time I attempt to compile, I've spent hours but I cannot find the reason for this error. Anyone have any ideas?

1>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'unicows.lib'
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Torque 3D Owner Matt Huston
Atomic Banzai Games
#1
07/15/2011 (3:10 pm)
unicows.lib is related to Unicode which a standard for handling text in various languages around the world. I would think that comes with Visual Studio/Windows API. Which version of Visual Studio are you running?

Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#2
07/15/2011 (3:10 pm)
If I remember right, unicows.lib used to live next to the TGE executable file in the example/ directory. Maybe check if it hasn't been accidentally deleted?

EDIT: ninja'd.

Torque Owner none
Lahage Studios
#3
07/15/2011 (3:15 pm)
@Matt I've tried using 2005, 2008, and 2010..
@Daniel That's the unicows.dll and its there, I just don't know how to make this error dissappear

Torque 3D Owner Bloodknight
Bloodknight Studios
#4
07/15/2011 (3:28 pm)
I wonder if this has anything to do with the windows SDK installed?

I'm using win 7 and it compiles fine with 2008 and 2010, using the sdk installed with 2010

Torque Owner none
Lahage Studios
#5
07/15/2011 (4:44 pm)
Well the weird thing is it allows a blank slate torque to compile fine. It's just my project.

Torque 3D Owner Bloodknight
Bloodknight Studios
#6
07/15/2011 (5:28 pm)
did you manually change any of the VC++ directory options to look for specific platform SDK folders
Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A
Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1

for example i dont know the 2005 one, i havent used that since XP

Perhaps you could merge your changes into a vanilla install of TGE and see if that works?

Torque Owner none
Lahage Studios
#7
07/15/2011 (5:40 pm)
I just tried that, but no dice :/. And I just tried the vanilla install also, but it didnt work

Torque 3D Owner Matt Huston
Atomic Banzai Games
#8
07/16/2011 (7:27 am)
Are you using Visual Studio Express or Professional? I know Torque 3D works with VS2008/2010 Express but recall having to use my copy of VS 2005 Professional back when I used TGE.

Torque Owner none
Lahage Studios
#9
07/16/2011 (8:35 am)
I'm using express, but I've had no problems with the vanilla build, but I don't understand which code file could have caused the issue I'm having. I suppose I could add the files in subgroups until I have a problem and track it down that way, but that sounds very time consuming.

Torque 3D Owner Matt Huston
Atomic Banzai Games
#10
07/16/2011 (2:43 pm)
You could use WinMerge (www.winmerge.org) to compare the directories for differences in files.

Torque Owner none
Lahage Studios
#11
07/16/2011 (2:56 pm)
Alright, I'll give that a go, thankyou!

Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#12
07/16/2011 (3:34 pm)
Also, now might be an opportune moment for me to plug version control! I've been using TortoiseSVN for years now, and it saved my butt several times.

Torque Owner none
Lahage Studios
#13
07/16/2011 (3:53 pm)
This looks awesome, and I will definitely use this from now on to prevent this one stupid error haha! Thanks to all three of you!