Compile simple project which uses FCollada

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Original post by saagrawa My project setting are as follows: Additional Incl Dir: "C:\Program Files\Feeling Software\FCollada" Preprocessor Definitions: WIN32;NDEBUG;FCOLLADA_DLL Additional Lib Dir: "C:\Program Files\Feeling Software\FCollada\Output\Release Unicode DLL Win32" Additional Dependencies: FColladaU.dll

I don't have access to my code right now... but if I remember correctly FCOLLADA_DLL shouldn't be defined in your code... if I open my project file in notepad I see this as the defines (for debug non-unicode ...):

PreprocessorDefinitions="WIN32;_DEBUG;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;NO_LIBXML"


I think you would just need to add the "NO_LIBXML" and remove the FCOLLADA_DLL and it should work... I can always have a better look at it later when I get home.

JFF

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I think you would just need to add the "NO_LIBXML" and remove the FCOLLADA_DLL and it should work... I can always have a better look at it later when I get home. JFF

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and unfortunately, I still get the same errors.

Found the problem! In main.cpp , I was including the wrong header file. Instead of "FCDocument/FCDocument.h", I should have included "FCollada.h".

You will find, with FCollada, that you have to include a header file for EVERY element of the API you want to use. It's both annoying and efficient at the same time, in that, you have to find out which header to include to use a certain class, but overall it doesn't bloat your final product with code you're not going to use.

Also get used to reading Doxygen docs and using your own guesswork - FCollada comes with no "tutorials" or other documentation apart from a sparsely populated forum, I had to figure most of the stuff out for myself.