hi there! im total newbe and have a problem.iv got Andre Lamothe book "tricks of windows game programming gurus" and when im compiling first example in this book ive got errors: Warning 1 warning C4101: 'ps' : unreferenced local variable Warning 2 warning C4101: 'hdc' : unreferenced local variable Error 4 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _DirectDrawCreateEx@16 referenced in function "int __cdecl DD_Init(int,int,int)" (?DD_Init@@YAHHHH@Z) Error 5 error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals and some more.but if go to project properties and change character set from Unicode to multibyte I end with errors 4 and 5 only. now the book is from 2002 so the .cpp files and Im using visual studio 2012 express with windows 8 with directx sdk that comes with it. I don't see ddraw.lib in sdk folder and don't know what to do and how to resolve the errors above any help please will be appreciated thank you
Eek; I know the _DirectDrawCreateEx is an older DX7 command; I'm not sure its even supported anymore. I know DirectDraw itself has been phased out in favor of Direct2D... Try downloading the DirectX Redistributional package and see if it includes dDraw.dll.
