How to install Irrlitch on VS 2017 ?

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Sambasha
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How to install Irrlitch on VS 2017 ?

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Hello,

Im trying to install Irrlitch on Visual Studio but i can't compile.

What i already do :

Set up the path for the LIB and Include.

Did i miss a step ?

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Re: How to install Irrlitch on VS 2017 ?

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Irrlicht 1.8 has no project files for VS2017 but needs recompile. You have 2 choices. First one is to convert old projects files to new VS. The second one is to use svn trunk version of Irrlicht (https://sourceforge.net/p/irrlicht/code/HEAD/tree). That one has a project file which can be used to recompile Irrlicht with VS2017.

There's another solution in which you force VS2017 to be backward compatible, but not really worth it (you can't use any newer c++ featuers then anymore). Recompiling is better.

You also need to install a very old DirectX SDK which supports DX9.
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