.dll Question dll not found?

[Alexw95]

after doing some googling i set up my visual studio as orbiter wiki said but i realised that i need to make a dll for my mfd how would i do that?

 

[tl8]

I think the first question is: Do you know how to program in C++, or failing that what is the difference between Lua and C++?

 

[Alexw95]

ok i have to admit i am just learning c++ and only know the basics i am failing pretty bad at it but i have grabbed the basic ideas of it. i made an mfd in visual basic and i would like to test it i made the mfd off the custom mfd in the sdk i changed some things around just to get the feel of coding. i set it up so it is a dll in vs but how to i save it as a dll i still have the .h and .cpp files but no dll?

 

[tl8]

You have to complie/build the project, this should hopefully create a dll in the target directory.

 

[Alexw95]

i went to build the project i set my desktop as my destination and i got this error

error LNK1104: cannot open file 'C:\Users\Alex\Desktop'

 

[tl8]

This is probably UAC blocking it. Your best bet is the modules folder of your Orbiter install or the location of your code.

 

[garyw]

As a suggestion why not use the examples in the SDK or on orbit hangar? There are some awesome MFD's out there with source code included.

 

[Hielor]

Was there something wrong with using your previous thread for this? This is just a continuation of the same issue.

The error message that you gave suggests that you have one or more settings incorrect.