I have a class called MODEL in which public static int theMaxFrames resides. The class is defined in its own header file. theMaxFrames is accessed by a class within the MODEL class and by one function, void set_up(), which is also in the MODEL class. The Render.cpp source file contains a function which calls a function in the Direct3D.cpp source file which in turn calls the set_up() function through a MODEL object. This is the only connection between these two source files and theMaxFrames. When I try to compile my code I get the following error messages: 1Direct3D.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static int MODEL::theMaxFrames" (?theMaxFrames@MODEL@@2HA) 1Render.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static int MODEL::theMaxFrames" (?theMaxFrames@MODEL@@2HA) 1C:\Users\Byron\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\xFileViewer\Debug\xFileViewer.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals