Getting DX 9 up and running

[Nacho]

Hello there! This is my first post so let me introduce myself: my name is Ignacio and I´m a sw engineering student from Argentina.

Anyway, I´m having some trouble to get a DX 9 sample application -which makes use of the DirectX Sample Framework- running. So far so good I created a new Win32GUI project inside a blank workspace and included all the relevant files and paths. Nonetheless, the compiler refuses to compile saying there´s a problem in one of the files from the Sample Framework (DXUTmisc.h). More specifically, in the line 112:

struct DXUTCache_Font : public D3DXFONT_DESC

because it doesn´t know what D3DXFONT_DESC mean. D3DXFONT_DESC is defined in d3dx9core.h. I´ve traced the inclusion sequence and d3dx9core.h is included by d3dx9.h which is included before DXUTmisc.h. I´ve tried switching the compiler from GCC to the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 and I get the exact same errors. Has anybody experienced a similar problem? If so, how did you solve them?

Thanks in advance!

--Nacho

[sethjackson]

Not sure if this will help or not, but you might read it anyways.....

http://forums.next.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=1373.0

[Nacho]

Not sure if this will help or not, but you might read it anyways.....

http://forums.next.codeblocks.org/index.php?topic=1373.0

Thanks for the link but, unfortunately, they´re not discussing the same problems I´m having (maybe I will after I solve the problems in the compilation phase and get to the linking process, I hope not!  )

--Nacho

[Vampyre_Dark]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/directx9_c_Summer_04/directx/graphics/reference/d3dx/structures/D3DXFONT_DESC.asp

Header   d3dx9core.h
Minimum operating systems   Windows 98

Did you define your Target OS? #define WINVER 0x4000 or whatever. It might only be defined if you have the right OS, I've seen this before.

[Michael]

Hello,

In the forum there are 2-3 topics about DirectX (may be more). You can try an (advanced) search to get them. Probably, you will get an answer to your problem (or at least some helpful info ).

Michael

[Nacho]

Vampyre_Dark and Michael: Thanks for your replies! I´ve finally managed to compile a DX 9 project using the GCC compiler included with CodeBlocks. Do you guys recommend switching to the Visual C++ Toolkit or should I stick to GCC?

Thanks again for all your help!

--Nacho

[Vampyre_Dark]

Should I stick to GCC?

That will start a religious war. Use whichever works for you. Don't let someone else tell you which you need to use.  :lol:

[mandrav]

Do you guys recommend switching to the Visual C++ Toolkit or should I stick to GCC?

I agree with Vampyre_Dark, especially now that debugging is supported for both compilers (although I prefer debugging with GDB, but that's just me).

[Michael]

I agree with Vampyre_Dark and Mandrav . If I can give you an advice, try both and see with which of them you feel more comfortable and or which works better for your project.

Michael

[Nacho]

Ok. I´ll try, then! Thanks again for all your input.

--Nacho