Trouble building Irrlicht

mhoot80 · Post by **mhoot80** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:29 am

So I downloaded Irrlicht and tried to build the solution in VS 2005 Professional but I get this error:

fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'd3d8.h': No such file or directory

from some of the files. I know that means that it can't find the include file, but I have already downloaded the March 2009 Directx 9 SDK and set the project to include it...do I have to download a Directx 8 SDK to get this thing to build properly? If so...why doesn't Directx 9 support applications like this one that use a previous version...or is it just because Microsoft wants to make programmers waste their lives downloading ancient software?

moekkog · Post by **moekkog** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:41 am

if you doesnt have installed dx8 and 9 it will not compile just compile de examples and if you need it in your project copy de irrlicht.dll and that it
a precompiled irrlicht so you dont have to compile it and get that error just copy the .dll

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:32 am

Which Irrlicht version do you use? I actually don't know what the last release needed, but if you build Irrlicht yourself then you can build it without dx8 support by out-commenting _IRR_COMPILE_WITH_DIRECT3D_8_ in IrrCompileConfig.h
Actually I think it's already out-commented by default, which is why I'm wondering with which version this does happen.

mhoot80 · Post by **mhoot80** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:46 pm

I'm using the latest version I suppose...Irrlicht 1.5. I just downloaded it yesterday.

twilight17 · Post by **twilight17** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:06 pm

Comment out _IRR_COMPILE_WITH_DIRECT3D_8_ in IrrCompileConfig.h as CuteAlien said.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:09 pm

Oh yeah, the official SDKs usually have the DX8 enabled, it's only disabled in SVN

Irrlicht Engine

Trouble building Irrlicht

Trouble building Irrlicht

there are some troubles compiling it