playing a .wav file

Question

I'm using visual studio 2010 express and I'm trying to write a simple program that will repeat a wave file 5 times(I'm running a windows xp sp3).

This is as far as I got:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;   
int main ()
{
    int a = 5;
        while(a >= 1){
            cout << "It's a wav file";
            PlaySound(L"SomeAudioFile-01.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME);
            --a;
        }
    return 0;
 }

The problem is I keep getting this error message when I'm building it:

1>------ Build started: Project: It's a F**king Country, Configuration: Release Win32 --    ----
1>  mycode.cpp
1>..\..\..\..\..\Shaul's documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\MyProject\Release\SomeAudioFile-01.wav : fatal error LNK1136: invalid or corrupt file
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

The file is perfectly fine and plays with no problems whatsoever outside visual studio.

Help would be truly appreciated.

Answer 1

Instead of adding the WAV file to the project files, add it to the resources and use SND_RESOURCE instead of SND_FILENAME.

Answer 2

You include the sound file as a object file, so the compiler tries to link with it. But it's a binary file that's not linkable (which is what the error message says).

Don't include the sound file in the project, so the environment won't link with it.

^{P.S. In the future, please refrain from using "bad" words on a public site like this.}

Answer 3

To get rid of the linker error, you need to tell the IDE to link with the winmm.lib library also, so open Project/Properties/Configuration Properties/Linker/Input and append winmm.lib in the Additional Dependencies field.

Also, use the following function profile:

PlaySound(L"audio.wav", NULL, SND_APPLICATION);