# Linking to FMOD Studio using MinGW
**URL:** https://qa.fmod.com/t/linking-to-fmod-studio-using-mingw/11478
**Category:** FMOD Studio
**Created:** [May 20, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/linking-to-fmod-studio-using-mingw/11478 "2014-05-20T19:51:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@joncol](https://qa.fmod.com/u/joncol)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/linking-to-fmod-studio-using-mingw/11478/1 "2014-05-20T19:51:49Z")
Hi,
I’m having troubles linking my application to FMOD Studio API using MinGW. I’m trying to link against fmodstudio.dll, but keep getting undefined reference errors to the functions that I’m trying to use.
I’ve managed to link against the lowlevel API without problems (and gotten sounds to play this way).
Has anyone gotten MinGW to work with the latest (1.03.07) Studio API?
This is my CMake output:
sound\libsound.a(sound\_system.cpp.obj):sound\_system.cpp:(.text+0x408): undefined reference to `FMOD_Studio_System_Create@8' sound\libsound.a(sound_system.cpp.obj):sound_system.cpp:(.text+0x440): undefined reference to`FMOD\_Studio\_System\_Initialize@20’
and output from make VERBOSE=1:
c:\MinGW\bin\g++.exe -std=c++11 -Wall -Wconversion -Werror -Wno-unused-local-typedefs -Wl,–enable-stdcall-fixup -Wl,–whole-archive CMakeFiles\office\_revenge.dir/objects.a -Wl,–no-whole-archive -o …\bin\office\_revenge.exe -Wl,–out-implib,liboffice\_revenge.dll.a -Wl,–major-image-version,0,–minor-image-version,0 sound\libsound.a -lmingw32 -lm -ldinput8 -ldxguid -ldxerr8 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -limm32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lshell32 -lversion -luuid D:\code\lib\SFML-2.1\lib\libsfml-system.a D:\code\lib\SFML-2.1\lib\libsfml-window.a D:\code\lib\SFML-2.1\lib\libsfml-graphics.a …\src…\lib\LuaJIT-2.0.3\bin\lua51.dll D:\code\lib\boost\_1\_55\_0\stage\lib\libboost\_system-mgw48-mt-1\_55.a D:\code\lib\boost\_1\_55\_0\stage\lib\libboost\_filesystem-mgw48-mt-1\_55.a D:\code\lib\boost\_1\_55\_0\stage\lib\libboost\_unit\_test\_framework-mgw48-mt-1\_55.a “c:\Program Files (x86)\FMOD SoundSystem\FMOD Studio
API Windows\api\studio\lib\fmodstudio.dll” -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32
sound\libsound.a(sound\_system.cpp.obj):sound\_system.cpp:(.text+0x408): undefined reference to `FMOD_Studio_System_Create@8' sound\libsound.a(sound_system.cpp.obj):sound_system.cpp:(.text+0x440): undefined reference to`FMOD\_Studio\_System\_Initialize@20’
Regards
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### Author:  [@DaleKim](https://qa.fmod.com/u/DaleKim)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/linking-to-fmod-studio-using-mingw/11478/2 "2014-05-27T03:18:41Z")
Check out a previous post I made for a little bit of a start: [viewtopic.php?f=21&t=18762](http://52.88.2.202/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=18762)
But my issue was eventually resolved via direct email support with FMOD. FMOD told me that they are aware of the issue and intend to release MinGW compatible binaries on Windows as of version 1.04.
The gist of the issue is that FMOD Studio library does not yet currently export the dll symbols. You can actually generate a MinGW compatible binary with the following def:
```auto
EXPORTS
FMOD_Studio_ParseID@8
FMOD_Studio_System_Create@8
FMOD_Studio_System_SetAdvancedSettings@8
FMOD_Studio_System_GetAdvancedSettings@8
FMOD_Studio_System_Initialize@20
FMOD_Studio_System_Release@4
FMOD_Studio_System_Update@4
FMOD_Studio_System_GetLowLevelSystem@8
FMOD_Studio_System_GetEvent@16
FMOD_Studio_System_GetMixerStrip@16
FMOD_Studio_System_GetBank@12
FMOD_Studio_System_LookupID@12
FMOD_Studio_System_LookupPath@20
FMOD_Studio_System_GetListenerAttributes@8
FMOD_Studio_System_SetListenerAttributes@8
FMOD_Studio_System_LoadBankFile@16
FMOD_Studio_System_LoadBankMemory@24
FMOD_Studio_System_LoadBankCustom@16
FMOD_Studio_System_RegisterPlugin@8
FMOD_Studio_System_UnregisterPlugin@8
FMOD_Studio_System_UnloadAll@4
FMOD_Studio_System_FlushCommands@4
FMOD_Studio_System_StartRecordCommands@12
FMOD_Studio_System_StopRecordCommands@4
FMOD_Studio_System_PlaybackCommands@8
FMOD_Studio_System_GetBankCount@8
FMOD_Studio_System_GetBankList@16
FMOD_Studio_System_GetCPUUsage@8
FMOD_Studio_System_GetBufferUsage@8
FMOD_Studio_System_ResetBufferUsage@4
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetID@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetPath@16
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetParameterCount@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetParameterByIndex@12
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetParameter@12
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetUserPropertyCount@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetUserPropertyByIndex@12
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetUserProperty@12
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetLength@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetMinimumDistance@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetMaximumDistance@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_IsOneshot@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_IsStream@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_Is3D@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_CreateInstance@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetInstanceCount@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetInstanceList@16
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_LoadSampleData@4
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_UnloadSampleData@4
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetSampleLoadingState@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_ReleaseAllInstances@4
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_SetCallback@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_GetUserData@8
FMOD_Studio_EventDescription_SetUserData@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetDescription@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetVolume@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_SetVolume@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetPitch@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_SetPitch@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_Get3DAttributes@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_Set3DAttributes@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetPaused@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_SetPaused@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_Start@4
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_Stop@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetTimelinePosition@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_SetTimelinePosition@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetPlaybackState@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetChannelGroup@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_Release@4
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_IsVirtual@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetParameter@12
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetParameterByIndex@12
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetParameterCount@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_SetParameterValue@12
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_SetParameterValueByIndex@12
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetCue@12
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetCueByIndex@12
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetCueCount@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_CreateSubEvent@12
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetLoadingState@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_SetCallback@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_GetUserData@8
FMOD_Studio_EventInstance_SetUserData@8
FMOD_Studio_CueInstance_Trigger@4
FMOD_Studio_ParameterInstance_GetDescription@8
FMOD_Studio_ParameterInstance_GetValue@8
FMOD_Studio_ParameterInstance_SetValue@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_GetID@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_GetPath@16
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_GetFaderLevel@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_SetFaderLevel@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_GetPaused@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_SetPaused@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_GetMute@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_SetMute@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_StopAllEvents@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_GetChannelGroup@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_GetLoadingState@8
FMOD_Studio_MixerStrip_Release@4
FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetID@8
FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetPath@16
FMOD_Studio_Bank_Unload@4
FMOD_Studio_Bank_LoadSampleData@4
FMOD_Studio_Bank_UnloadSampleData@4
FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetLoadingState@8
FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetSampleLoadingState@8
FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetEventCount@8
FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetEventList@16
FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetMixerStripCount@8
FMOD_Studio_Bank_GetMixerStripList@16
```
This is the content of fmod\_studio\_cygwin.def (sorry, I had to throw it in as code since I can’t seem to upload any attachments). You can then generate a lib with the following command:
```auto
dlltool -U -d fmod_studio_cygwin.def -D fmodstudio.dll -l fmodstudio.a
```
fmodstudio.a will contain the dll import information for MinGW to use to properly link to the C version of the FMOD Studio API.
Special thanks to Graeme Webb, who figured this out and sent me the fix!