Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Mingw compatible DirectX 9 SDK

[Shadow2531 <sha...@tb...>]

Joshua Pollak wrote:

> Could you write explicit instructions on how to duplicate your effort? 
> It may not be legal for you to redistribute your modified DXSDK, but it 
> is legal to describe how you made the change...
> 
> We'd like to duplicate it as well.
> 
> Also, could someone explain why the DirectX 9 SDK can't be used directly 
>  with MinGW? Why can't we just link GCC with DirectX's .lib files?
> 
> -Josh
> 

Yes, I will do that.  I already made a program to easily do some renaming of any 
of the lib files that don't need to be converted by reimp.  I'm also going to 
make a similar thing to help reimp so you convert them all in one command. 
(Previously I used a batch file) with reimp this, reimp that etc...

Quickly I will summarize what I did, till I write the full description.

extracted reimp from the mingw utilities at the mingw site.

Since reimp will only convert files that need converting, I just created a batch 
file that did

reimp file.lib

for all the files

For the files that reimp didn't need take care of, I just changed their .lib 
extension to .a

The created obj files, I changed the extension to .o

Reimp created a bunch of temp files (to create the obj files I think). I just 
deleted all of those.

For the header files, I just deleted the illegal character at the end of dxfile.h.

Then I slapped it all together.

I'll be more specific when I get a chance.

Shadow2531