[ODE] (Newbie question) Getting started with ODE and VS.NET

[Duncan Frostick]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to serious Visual C++ (I know C/C++ reasonably well and 
have done some simple linux based console apps for fun, but this is my 
first trip into windows coding outside of basic Win32 API stuff), and to 
ODE, and I'm utterly lost. I simply can't get anything to build with ODE.

I was fine compiling v0.35 with a windows version of make, but had no 
success with v0.5 within MSVS.NET itself (even with the contributed 
msvs7 projects and stuff) so I downloaded the pre-built version for MSVS 
to save frustration. But when I try to compile some example code, I just 
get a host of linker errors for pretty much every function call. I've 
added the include directory and lib directory into the settings for VS, 
and I've tried adding directories to the linker settings, and I've tried 
having the ODE project and one of my little projects in the same 
solution... but whatever I do - I get pages of this:

Compiling...
test_boxstack.cpp
Linking...
test_boxstack.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "void 
__cdecl dsSetColorAlpha(float,float,float,float)" 
(?dsSetColorAlpha@@$$J0YAXMMMM at Z)
test_boxstack.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "void 
__cdecl dRSetIdentity(double * const)" (?dRSetIdentity@@$$J0YAXQAN at Z)
test_boxstack.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "void 
__cdecl dGeomGetAABB(struct dxGeom *,double * const)" 
(?dGeomGetAABB@@$$J0YAXPAUdxGeom@@QAN at Z)
test_boxstack.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "struct 
dxGeom * __cdecl dGeomTransformGetGeom(struct dxGeom *)" 
(?dGeomTransformGetGeom@@$$J0YAPAUdxGeom@@PAU1@@Z)

And so on...

I know I'm missing something obvious, I know I'm going to kick myself 
when I realise what the problem is, thing is... I just have no idea 
about Visual Studio and Visual C++ so if one of you could help me out 
I'd be very VERY grateful! I'm just desparate to get past these errors 
and start doing something fun!

Cheers, Duncan Frostick