[Plib-users] joystick library

[McCracken R. <inf...@ya...>]

Hey, I'm trying to break free of the classroom
dependencies inflicted on me (college experiences).
So, here goes my first question (hopefully not too
naive - the subject matter in the archive is pretty
intimidating):

OK, running Windows '98 (try not to hate me too much
for doing this). I installed Cygwin and it seems to
work quite well. I downloaded the plib stuff (1.3.1).
I did what the readme told me to:

  ./configure
  make
  make install

OK, so now I have the example js_demo.cxx file in
/usr/local/plib_examples-1.3.1/src/js

In this directory there is also a file called
'js_demo.exe'. So I type './js_demo', and -Eureka!- it
works for both of my controllers.

But now I decide to try running some of my own stuff.
There is a problem at the point at which the statement
js[0]->notWorking () appears. This statement returns a
value of 1 (not working).

I attached the js_demo.cxx code for ease of viewing.

I figured I might try running js_demo.cxx on my own to
see if it was my code. So I type this:

g++ js_demo.cxx

The executable appears by default in a.exe. I run it
and the controllers still don't work. So if the code
that created js_demo.exe is js_demo.cxx, is there some
sort of option that I'm missing to get an executable
that works like the js_demo.exe? Or is the problem
more serious/complicated?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,
/R

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