My questions:
1) My book ("Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus ed1" ) teaches DirectX 8.1 SDK. Is it fine to have that SDK on for ease-of-understanding w/ the book, or use the updated DirectX 9.0c SDK
2) Relating to DirectX 8.1 SDK, the book says I need the following library files:
ddraw.lib
dsound.lib
dinput.lib
dsetup.lib
dplayx.lib
Now, the next three are nowhere to be found in the library folder:
d3dim.lib
d3drm.lib
dsound3d.lib
Where are these libraries Did MS do their yearly remove & replace somewhere How is this going to effect my code
Thanks,
Phil
1) My book ("Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus ed1" ) teaches DirectX 8.1 SDK. Is it fine to have that SDK on for ease-of-understanding w/ the book, or use the updated DirectX 9.0c SDK
2) Relating to DirectX 8.1 SDK, the book says I need the following library files:
ddraw.lib
dsound.lib
dinput.lib
dsetup.lib
dplayx.lib
Now, the next three are nowhere to be found in the library folder:
d3dim.lib
d3drm.lib
dsound3d.lib
Where are these libraries Did MS do their yearly remove & replace somewhere How is this going to effect my code
Thanks,
Phil
Where is d3dim.lib, d3drm.lib, dsound3d.lib?
OzJester
Yes.
d3d8.lib is the DirectX 8.x Direct3D library.
d3d9.lib is the DirectX 9.0 Direct3D library.
AFKM
Still waiting... I read that d3dim is in d3d8.lib, but that's all so far.
Annoyeddeveloper
GRoston
direct3drm.lib is for "Direct3D Retained Mode"
dsound3d.lib is for "DirectSound 3D"
All of those libraries are for DirectX 7 rather than DirectX 8.
- The API for Direct3D Immediate Mode was redesigned for DirectX 8 and is now what is simply known as Direct3D.
- Direct3D Retained Mode was made obsolete in DirectX 8. There isn't an equivilent, though some of the functionality (albeit with a totally different API) is now in the D3DX library.
- The functionality from DirectSound3D was moved into the main DirectSound library so 3D positional audio stuff is now found in dsound.lib.
Microsoft usually put the libraries from *one* previous version of DirectX in the SDK for the current version, so the DirectX 8.x SDK also contains the library files from the DirectX 7 SDK, but not any older versions; likewise, the DirectX 9 SDK also contains the library files from the DirectX 8.x SDK but not those from the DirectX 7 SDK.
If your book was truly written for DirectX 8 (and above), none of the sample code or text should require any of those three libraries.
HTH