Creating the project

NOTE: This page describes setting up a project under MSVC 6. Please refer to your compiler documentation for information about building dlls on other platforms. Note also the the tutorial and example workspaces are now provided as VC 7.1 solutions.

Select 'Win32 Dynamic-Link Library' for the project type.
The project is created under the 'samples' subdirectory of the release.
The exact location of this directory will depend on where you have located the release on your hard drive

For this example project the project name was set to 'basicapplication'.
For a new project enter the name you want to use for the project.

For this tutorial select the empty dll option to avoid any code getting generated.

Adding files

Add a new cpp file to the project 'main.cpp'.
You can also add the headers 'i_pathengine.h' and 'i_testbed.h' from the 'interface' subdirectory of the main release directory.