Upgraded to v 0.12.0 Now it says DX 9 wont work

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:05 am

G'day

I just upgraded to v0.12.0 and now when I complie projects I get a warning: "Compiling Irrlicht with Visual Studio 6.0, support for DX9 is disabled." yet if I make changes to the file and recomplie the project I do not get any error messages. I've copied and pasted the source code of the example files and they complied and rendered just fine when I selected the DX9 render.

So is there an error in the error messages or have I done something wrong ?

dhenton9000 · Post by **dhenton9000** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:07 am

VC++ 6 is no longer a DX9 compilant compiler, so I saw this message when doing exactly what you are doing with VC++6. There's a post around somewhere that says that you can recompile the Irrlicht source after first finding the part that Niko put in to send up this message. Its supposed to be one block somewhere. You need the DX9 sdk however.

Can someone explain to me how a C++ compiler can be out of date?
C++ is C++!!!!!!!

Masdus · Post by **Masdus** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 3:34 am

I think microsoft have announced that the latest version of DX is not compatiable with VC 6++. Its not that VC 6++ is out of date, just that the current version of DX is not guaranteed to work with VC 6++

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:40 am

Use DEVCPP !!

i'ts free !!

and much more lighter in ressourcres consumation !

and the code it's much more cleaner !

Masdus · Post by **Masdus** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:09 am

the code is much more cleaner? Do you mean the compiled machine code, because i was under the impression that the microsoft optimiser was very good.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:55 am

MS VC++ is the best app for making WINDOWS code. This is a know fact so don't start banging on about other compilers being better blah de blah. MS knows windows and it is one of their saving graces. Any pro will tell you, if you are making it for windows, use Visual Studio (even with the IDEs and C++ standard not always the best the code generated is good and can be great with the better ms compilers).

Intel also do an optimising compiler which you can plug into VS and get different results.. but there is nothing wrong with VS on it's own.

Even the DX9 thing is easy to work around.

and btw, not on a grammar quest but take note:

It is "Much cleaner" or "Much more clean" and never "much more cleaner" (or "much more anything-er").. when you put "er" on the end of the word the "more" is implicit you do not need it twice! Couldn't give a hoot about spelling mistakes or any number of other things (of which I am guilty at times) but I see this kind of thing all over the forum, and it irks me big time, makes our community (irrlicht users) seem like a bunch of simplefolk who have just mananged to tap out C++ by mistake

peace

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:56 am

They aren't simple just foreign...

For such a perfectionist I would imagine you already knew the internet wasn't English only and I doubt your Japanese is very good so don't criticize.

Just ignore the stupid error code I do it doesn't change anything.