Thread overview
Unresolved external symbol
May 01, 2014
Ga
May 02, 2014
evilrat
May 02, 2014
Ga
May 01, 2014
I have the following code:

import std.stdio;

version(Windows)
{
	extern(Windows)
	{
		nothrow
		{
			alias void *HANDLE;
			alias HANDLE HDC;
			int GetDeviceCaps(HDC, int);
		}
	}
}

int main()
{
	int left = GetDeviceCaps(null, 8);

	readln();

	return 0;
}

And I am getting a "error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol GetDeviceCaps referenced in function _Dmain"

Why is that? I'm obviously missing something here, because another function, GetDC works properly..
May 02, 2014
On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 22:23:22 UTC, Ga wrote:
> And I am getting a "error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol GetDeviceCaps referenced in function _Dmain"

have you linked gdi32.lib?
May 02, 2014
On Friday, 2 May 2014 at 06:07:48 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 May 2014 at 22:23:22 UTC, Ga wrote:
>> And I am getting a "error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol GetDeviceCaps referenced in function _Dmain"
>
> have you linked gdi32.lib?

Thanks a lot, I wasn't sure what to link with, I must've overlooked it on msdn. Thanks once more