VS2013: Build errors on d3dx9shader

[miyudreams]

Help, I just downloaded Irrlicht 1.8.1 SDK.
Opened BuildAllExamples_vc11.sln.
Build all.

But I got 25 errors. I'm running Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 8.1. Is this OS and IDE supported? By default, Windows 8.1 has DirectX 10 and 11 installed. I can't install DirectX 9, it's not compatible, with a popup message box.

Anyone know how I can proceed?

Thanks

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DirectX Setup
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You must be running Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition,
Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 family
to install the DirectX 9.0.
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OK
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Error   1   error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx9shader.h': No such file or directory   d:\development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\irrlicht\CD3D9ShaderMaterialRenderer.h 15  1   Irrlicht
Error   2   error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx9shader.h': No such file or directory   d:\development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\irrlicht\CD3D9ShaderMaterialRenderer.h 15  1   Irrlicht
Error   3   error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx9shader.h': No such file or directory   d:\development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\irrlicht\CD3D9ShaderMaterialRenderer.h 15  1   Irrlicht
Error   4   error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx9shader.h': No such file or directory   d:\development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\irrlicht\CD3D9ShaderMaterialRenderer.h 15  1   Irrlicht
Error   5   error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx9shader.h': No such file or directory   d:\development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\irrlicht\CD3D9ShaderMaterialRenderer.h 15  1   Irrlicht
Error   6   error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3dx9tex.h': No such file or directory  D:\Development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\Irrlicht\CD3D9Texture.cpp  13  1   Irrlicht
    7   IntelliSense: cannot open source file "d3dx9shader.h"   d:\Development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\Irrlicht\CD3D9ShaderMaterialRenderer.h 15  1   Irrlicht
    8   IntelliSense: identifier "D3DXMACRO" is undefined   d:\Development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\Irrlicht\CD3D9ShaderMaterialRenderer.h 66  12  Irrlicht
    9   IntelliSense: identifier "LPD3DXINCLUDE" is undefined   d:\Development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\Irrlicht\CD3D9ShaderMaterialRenderer.h 66  33  Irrlicht
    10  IntelliSense: identifier "LPD3DXBUFFER" is undefined    d:\Development\irrlicht-1.8.1\source\Irrlicht\CD3D9ShaderMaterialRenderer.h 67  19  Irrlicht
 

[CuteAlien]

For development you don't just need DirectX installed but you need the DirectX SDK to get the headers. I have no Windows 8 so I can't really test - but I suppose newer DirectX SDK's should still include with the old headers.

[AReichl]

Best is to just install an old DirectX SDK (e.g. June 2010). Works perfectly with Irrlicht.

With Windows 8 i am not so sure. Microsoft has abandoned the DirectX SDK - it's now part of the general platform SDK, and THAT should be included with an installation of Visual Studio 2013. I for example can compile the shader branch of Irrlicht with VS2013 without problems.

[AReichl]

Ahhh - sorry - didn't read your post carefully.
You cannot install an old SDK on Windows 8 (or 8.1) - that's right.
I remember i didn't install it but just copied it from another computer and set the enviroment variable DXSDK_DIR by hand.
But it still doesn't explain, why it doesn't find any headers. Best check if they are there - if not, then something with the installation went wrong.

[thanhle]

Not sure about windows 8.1.
But all demo runs fine on VS 2013 for version 1.81.

Regards,
thanh

[hybrid]

I think it compiled all fine for me, with 2010 SDK and VS2012. Will check, but should work all well.