directx dependency about devilution HOT 7 CLOSED

Mingw includes the libraries but doesn't include the header files, probably since it's been deprecated by Microsoft. You can grab them here:
https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/include/ddraw.h
https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/include/dsound.h
I'll add a link to the readme, but they won't be included directly.

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The above files do not seem to be compatible (at least with the current MinGW32 Version)
which versions are you using?

I copied a few files from an older 64bit strawberry perl installation that seems to contain some older mingw headers. it seems to work (or at least to compile and the game at least starts)

It seems that there are some ambiguities that would be good to resolve in dokumentations

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On fresh Windows 10 install with mingw I had the same problem.
I was able to compile successfully by downloading 3 files from this location:
ftp://sccn.ucsd.edu/pub/LSL/lsl-dependencies/external_libs/EmbarcaderoXE/shared/4.4.0-msvc/include/d3dtypes.h
ftp://sccn.ucsd.edu/pub/LSL/lsl-dependencies/external_libs/EmbarcaderoXE/shared/4.4.0-msvc/include/ddraw.h
ftp://sccn.ucsd.edu/pub/LSL/lsl-dependencies/external_libs/EmbarcaderoXE/shared/4.4.0-msvc/include/dsound.h

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I think the original version of DX was DX4 if I am not mistaken. Technically , (My memorys is messy from this) DX7 might work be quick jump for something more modern.

Some conversion work is needed for DX9 to work. I think a DLL proxy is what I saw that accomplished this though.

I would rather re write the API to be in OGL...

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According to some comment:

The legacy DirectSound8 headers are included in Windows SDK 7.0 or later. You don't need the legacy DirectX SDK for that.

Try getting the Windows SDK?

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I am wondering if this could help us. It seems a bit too old but I think it might be worth learning from it.

https://github.com/DXGLdotinfo/dxgl

Its a converter from DX to OGL.

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This is the fault of mingw directly as they no longer provide the header files but contain the libraries. I'll add some links to the readme eventually to the Windows SDK which contains them.

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