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The first step in this process is to delete the following legacy DirectX SDK headers & libraries completely. There is an option for obtaining the deprecated D3DX9, D3DX10, and/or D3DX11 libraries without using the legacy DirectX SDK or redist via NuGet. This is explicitly not an endorsement of the practice and I make no claims about whether or not this use is actually allowed by the terms of the DirectX SDK EULA. This post is for people who already have and canвЂ™t simply delete it all without breaking supported scenarios.

If you do not already have the legacy DirectX SDK headers/libraries submitted into your source control, I do not recommend doing so.

#DOWNLOAD WINDOWS SDK 7.1A HOW TO#

Therefore, this article suggest how to modify these legacy DirectX SDK вЂњmirrorsвЂќ to get proper build behavior. In this case, the various recommendations I mentioned above are difficult to properly apply since typically headers/libs in your source control tree are going to take precedence over the platform headers/libs in the Windows SDK. While this behavior is a bit of a grey area in terms of the DirectX SDK EULA, it is none-the-less a widespread practice in the industry including several major game engines. There is, however, one case that IвЂ™ve not addressed to date: A number of developers actually вЂњchecked inвЂќ the legacy DirectX SDK headers and libraries into their source control. You should in general rely on other methods for obtaining the latest debug device layer, tools, utility libraries, samples, Effects 11, DXUT11, and HLSL Compiler. This allows existing projects that still use deprecated D3DX9/D3DX10/D3DX11, XAudio 2.7, XInput 1.3, or XACT to build but still gain access to the latest Windows headers/libraries. Developers can of course continue to use the legacy DirectX SDK (once they apply the workaround for the existing installation problems) with the Windows 8.0 SDK or later which comes with VS 2012 / 2013 / 2015 per the instructions on MSDN. Over the past five years, IвЂ™ve devoted significant time and effort to explaining the state of affairs with the legacy DirectX SDK.

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