ddraw.h, dinput.h, dsound.h

beneficii · Post by **beneficii** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:45 am

For DirectX 8.1 SDK, do these files exist on the web anymore? Apparently, Microsoft has zapped to bits Directx 8.1 SDk.

I had these files before on my old computer, but I did not think to back them up, because I had forgotten how precious they are.

Post by **tepples** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:17 am

In here?

strat · Post by **strat** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:34 pm

hey while we're at it, I've been having trouble building an allegro project

gcc whatever.c -o whatever.exe -lalleg_s -lgdi32

Then it gives a bunch of unresolved directx symbols and I can't figure out how to link dx with it (without the gdi link it can't find gdi stuff either).

I was able to build allegro itself with mingw.

Dwedit · Post by **Dwedit** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:38 pm

http://www.dwedit.org/files/dxsdk.7z

4MB, unzips to 20MB
Mini directx sdk, probably works.

I think it includes DX8 and DX9.

strat · Post by **strat** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:10 am

Hmm, I was able to make some of the undefined symbols go away but throwing in a lot of dx libraries didn't do the trick.

Post by **tepples** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:35 am

strat wrote:I've been having trouble building an allegro project

gcc whatever.c -o whatever.exe -lalleg_s -lgdi32

Then it gives a bunch of unresolved directx symbols and I can't figure out how to link dx with it (without the gdi link it can't find gdi stuff either).

Look in .../allegro/docs/build/mingw32.txt, section "Using Allegro". Short version:

#define ALLEGRO_STATICLINK before #include <allegro.h>
-lalleg_s -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lole32 -ldinput -lddraw -ldxguid -lwinmm -ldsound
(incidentally, the length of this list is why the Linux version uses `allegro-config --libs`)

strat · Post by **strat** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:24 pm

Yay! It is builded!