[physfs] linking problem

[Dave]

Daniel Dadush wrote:

>Hi, I'm terribly new at this so I'm sorry if my question is rather dumb.
>I was desperately trying to built the physfs.dll from both within
>cygwin and ms visual studio 8 (beta) and I kept getting linker errors.
>This is the error I get from visual studio 8:
>
>------ Build started: Project: physfs, Configuration: Release
>Multithreaded DLL Win32 ------
>Compiling...
>zutil.c
>zip.c
>win32.c
>wad.c
>uncompr.c
>trees.c
>qpak.c
>physfs_byteorder.c
>physfs.c
>mvl.c
>inftrees.c
>inflate.c
>inffast.c
>hog.c
>grp.c
>dir.c
>deflate.c
>crc32.c
>compress.c
>adler32.c
>Linking...
>   Creating library .\Release/physfs.lib and object .\Release/physfs.exp
>win32.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__OpenProcessToken at 12
>win32.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__GetUserNameA at 8
>.\Release/physfs.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
>Build log was saved at
>"file://c:\cygwin\home\Daniel_N_Dadush\physfs\Release\BuildLog.htm"
>physfs - 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>
>I would really like to get this built but I really have no idea what's
>going wrong. If anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong I would
>really appreciate it.
>
>  
>
Hi Daniel,

I'm successfully using PhysFS 1.0.0 with Visual C++ 6.0, and I believe 
the linking problem you're facing might be because the library 
"advapi32" isn't being linked.

advapi32 seems to provide the OpenProcessToken *and* the GetUserNameA 
functions.

Hope this helps.

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