About DirectX SDK

williamlai3a · Post by **williamlai3a** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:03 pm

I know that complie the engine in VC 2005 needs my machine to install DirectX SDK first. I have downloaded the DirectX SDK - August 2007.
And try to complie the Demo code. However, in the file CD3D8ShaderMaterialRenderer.h, line 13: #include <d3dx8core.h>
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx8tex.h': No such file or directory
and I found that in the folder ~\Microsoft DirectX SDK (August 2007)\Include there is only d3dx9tex.h, but no d3dx8tex.h; and I tried to change from d3dx8tex.h to d3dx9tex.h, more than 100 errors come out.

Can anyone help me to solve this problem??

Thanks a lot.

William

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:00 pm

just disable DX8 in your Irrlicht settings (IrrCompileConfig.h), because the DX sdk you got has no DX8 support anymore !!!

Saturn · Post by **Saturn** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:19 pm

Maybe this config option should be deactivated by default? It is irrelevant for Linux users and most Windows users probably don't have an directx8 sdk anymore.

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:18 am

Absolutely it should be disabled by default now. This catches out every new Windows developer, and there's little reason for it as those d3d8x* includes haven't been available in a DXSDK for at least a year (more likely a lot longer), and the next DXSDK won't even have d3d8*.h includes. It's well past time to pull the plug on default support for D3D8.