Netbeans C++ using MinGW and the libnoise library

Question

Using netbeans 7.2 and the most recent version of MinGW (using installer) I can't use the libnoise library. I am properly including the header files, the auto completion confirms this, however the library is simply not working. There is a .lib file and a .dll. I have tried every possible combination of adding them under project > properties > Build > Linker as well as putting the .dll in the base project directory. Despite all this I am still getting undefined reference errors whenever I try and run the code. Does anyone know what to do?

Answer 1

I know that it is possible to link import library files (*.lib) with MinGW, but I still suggest to recompile libnoise.

With the current Makefile, this is not very easy and may break. Thus I've written a CMake script, which doesn't only work on Windows, but should work on all CMake supported platforms. In addition to this, I've cleaned up the directory structure. The code itself hasn't been touched and when you build a library it should essentially be the same as the current one.

libnoise on GitHub

After you've built your shared library, you'll have a libnoise.dll.a and libnoise.dll file. You then add libnoise.dll.a to the linking settings and put the DLL itself next to the binary, or in the working directory.

Answer 2

You have to link the lib file (= adding it to linker libraries) and put the dll to

<project root>/dist/<...>/

(where your exe is put to). There's no need to add the dll to linker too.

Can you please post the error message you get?