irrlicht engine Game; Driver problem

wahagn · Post by **wahagn** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:14 pm

Hello I am working on a game so I would like to use the demo of irrlicht as basis. Now I have that demo from the exapmles compiled and than comes that screen with driver's . when I select Direct3D, teh Demo.exe closes and will read: DIRECT3D9 Driver was not compiled into this dll . Try another one.

(<<--under problems in my IDE)But if I go irrlicht-1.5/bin/Win32-VisualStudio/demo.exe and select Direct3D it succeed

Can someone help me?

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:25 pm

Yes the search function can help you. This has been asked about a million times now.

wahagn · Post by **wahagn** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:48 pm

Sorry I have searched but could not find

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:50 pm

After one minute searching:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=33862
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=31364
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=27733

wahagn · Post by **wahagn** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:06 pm

Thx.

^^ I have read that topics above and, I understand that the error has to do with that Direct3D is not compiled with MinGW version but what version would I need to download so that it is?

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:11 pm

Now you have two keywords that you could type into the searchbox. Direct3d9 and mingw...

wahagn · Post by **wahagn** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:32 pm

i found it -

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... l&start=90

but in the zip is placed:

-irrlicht.dll

-libirrlicht.a

where i must place that dll ??

-D3DX81ab.dll

DtD · Post by **DtD** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:22 pm

That is gonna be an old version. You should either compile it yourself or man up and use MSVS. If you can't compile Irrlicht yourself, it's probably not a good idea for you to be wrestling with what compiler you're using.

~DtD

wahagn · Post by **wahagn** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:44 pm

DtD wrote:That is gonna be an old version. You should either compile it yourself or man up and use MSVS. If you can't compile Irrlicht yourself, it's probably not a good idea for you to be wrestling with what compiler you're using.

~DtD

i don't know how i can compile irrlicht but why i should be use micorsoft visual studio??

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:47 pm

Because it's much simpler to compile DirectX into Irrlicht with Visual Studio.

wahagn · Post by **wahagn** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:23 pm

but can someone tell me how to do??

but i do not want to use MS VS...

by the way im using Eclipse as IDE

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:45 pm

Eclipse can also work with the VC++. But there are also many descriptions about how to compile directx into a mingw dll, you just need to add some defines and have the proper headers and libs at hand.

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:20 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZNVKYxyIY

most ide do something similar to this. what you need to include is the directx sdk. for dx8 you need an older sdk it's no longer supported. you do not need directx8 though.

Jake-GR · Post by **Jake-GR** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:22 am

Because it's much simpler to compile DirectX into Irrlicht with Visual Studio.

thats just because for some reason someone thought it was hard and made it so it wont compile DX if you are using MinGW.

i heard horror stories about compiling with DX and MinGW... but i dont have any myself. i just added the "include" and "lib/x86" to search directories, added "d3dx9" to linker, and defined "IRR_COMPILE_WITH_DX9_DEV_PACK"...
hit compile and viola, some warnings but no errors and works like a charm.

WinXP
C::B 8.02 + MinGW (ver that comes with cb)
Nov 2008 DX SDK (only .dll, include, and lib folders)

wahagn · Post by **wahagn** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:39 am

Jake-GR wrote:
Because it's much simpler to compile DirectX into Irrlicht with Visual Studio.
thats just because for some reason someone thought it was hard and made it so it wont compile DX if you are using MinGW.

i heard horror stories about compiling with DX and MinGW... but i dont have any myself. i just added the "include" and "lib/x86" to search directories, added "d3dx9" to linker, and defined "IRR_COMPILE_WITH_DX9_DEV_PACK"...
hit compile and viola, some warnings but no errors and works like a charm.

WinXP
C::B 8.02 + MinGW (ver that comes with cb)
Nov 2008 DX SDK (only .dll, include, and lib folders)

Than i must:

-Download diectx9 sdk
^ Where??

-Add the inculde and lib of it to the Directories and d3dx9 to the linker
^Ok.

- define "IRR_COMPILE_WITH_DX9_DEV_PACK"...
^ Where??

Have someone a videoTutorial of this^^

P.S: What is the difference between Direct3D and Directx8 / 9?