Fatal error LNK1120 - mciSendString ?

[Shatronics]

Hi,
I'm trying to get the mciSendString working to play a mp3 file.
But when I try to compile I get the following error:
fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

I can't seem to find the problem.

My function is quite simple:

void play_mp3() {

mciSendString(L"open \C:\Documents and Settings\Simon\Dokumenter\Musik\2pm\ type mpegvideo alias MediaFile", NULL, 0, NULL);
mciSendString(L"play Mediafile", NULL, 0, NULL);

}

Regards,

Simon H.A.

[kbw]

Can you post the full error please.

[Shatronics]

1>Shatronics_mp3_player.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__mciSendStringW@16 referenced in function "void __cdecl play_mp3(void)" (?play_mp3@@YAXXZ)
1>C:\Documents and Settings\Simon\Dokumenter\Elektronik\Programmering\VisualC++\Codes\Shatronics_mp3_player\Debug\Shatronics_mp3_player.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

That's what it says.

Regards,

Simon H.A.

[kbw]

You need to link to WinMM.lib in the Platform SDK.

[Shatronics]

Thanks,
Now the code will compile. But it doesn't work.
I've added some changes, but it wont work.
The code is based on this site: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2053.asp

void play_mp3(TCHAR *filename) {

TCHAR command[MAX_PATH] = L"open \"";

_tcscat(command,filename);
_tcscat(command,L"\" type mpegvideo alias ");
_tcscat(command,filename);
command[_tcslen(command)] = 0;

mciSendString(command, NULL, 0, 0);
mciSendString(L"play mediafile", NULL, 0, 0);

}

The file direction is collected from another function that works perfectly, so the problem shouldn't be there.

Regards,
Simon H.A.

[Shatronics]

I got the problem solved.
I just changed the alias to a more simple name such as "musicfile" and used that instead.
Now it works perfectly.

Thanks for your help kbw.

Regards,

Simon H.A.