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Glui problems

Started by OgbobeBuko Aug 15, 2011 at 10:35 AM 0 replies 2.8k views

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Aug 15, 2011 at 10:35 AM

can anyone please give me a link or steps on installing gui with visual studio 2008 without having linking errors

i found a tutorial( http://www.codeproje...w_Template.aspx ) that used VS2006 to install glui...but i tried using the same steps but this time in VS2008...and i keep getting linking errors

or an alternative graphics user interface asides mfc
thanks


 Linking...
 1>glui32.lib(glui_spinner.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __iob
 1>glui32.lib(glui_edittext.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __iob referenced in function "public: virtual int __thiscall GLUI_EditText::mouse_down_handler(int,int)" (?mouse_down_handler@GLUI_EditText@@UAEHHH@Z)
 1>glui32.lib(ALGEBRA3.OBJ) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __iob

RobTheBloke

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RobTheBloke

Aug 15, 2011 at 11:38 AM

The best C++ GUI around is Qt (and happens to have some nice tools for authoring your widgets graphically). [Jon has a few tutorials up on his blog here. NGL is just his little math/graphics lib based on OpenGL ].
wx is a possibility (although in my opinion, it's a massive pain in the balls to use).
If you don't mind exposing some API as strict C (or as Managed C++), then using windows.forms and C# would be do-able (which is my favourite gui system, although cross-platform may be a pain/impossible)
I used glui many years ago, and to be honest it wasn't all that great back then, and I doubt it's got much better since. I'd strongly ssuggest using freeglut with glui, and make sure you build both of them from source. The errors you are facing seems to be a simple case of the library being linked against an older version of the C-Runtime (from 2005 maybe?). Rebuilding from source will probably fix the problem.

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