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Bug 3207

Summary: CMAKE: windows 8+sdk includes directx headers and doesn't have dxerr.lib
Product: SDL Reporter: Martin Gerhardy <martin.gerhardy>
Component: buildAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus
Version: HG 2.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows 8   

Description Martin Gerhardy 2015-12-14 16:15:26 UTC 
see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee663275.aspx

With VS 2011 and Windows 8 SDK, the DirectX SDK is included as part of the Windows SDK.

something like this is needed to implement switched between the versions to make sdl compile with never msvc versions:


if (DEFINED MSVC_VERSION AND NOT ${MSVC_VERSION} LESS 1700)
   set (USE_WINSDK_DIRECTX TRUE)
endif ()
Comment 1 Martin Gerhardy 2015-12-14 16:53:14 UTC 
also the mingw build should most likely link against dxerr9 instead of dxerr8. At least direct3d9 is used, not 8 - but i am not sure here - just trying to get things to compile and link properly...
Comment 2 Martin Gerhardy 2015-12-16 08:01:14 UTC 
Here is how I fixed this in my local repo of my game:

https://github.com/mgerhardy/caveexpress/commit/d09fa479f0d59b9da3676b7898d0767ae4d8b564
Comment 3 Ryan C. Gordon 2015-12-29 05:04:37 UTC 

This patch is now https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/e3d651c5fe31, thanks!

--ryan.