Microsoft Visual Studio (MVC 6) Direct Draw Compiler Setup

Microsoft Visual Studio (MVC 6) Direct Draw Compiler Setup

To setup your MVC compiler to work with DirectDraw (the last 5 steps are general for setting up DirectX as a whole) you will need to do the following:

• Make sure you have DirectX SDK installed on your computer(get it here)
• The rest of the steps below is assumung you have installed the SDK to its default path c:\mssdk
• Create a new Win32 app, open Project|Settings... on the menu
• Open the Link tab and in the Object/library modules box add two more .lib files: ddraw.lib dxguid.lib, Click OK
• Open up the Options window by going to Tools|Options... on the menu and click the Directories tab
• Select Include files from the Show directories for menu
• Add C:\mssdk\include to the Directories box and make sure it is first on the list by dragging it up.
• Select Library files from the Show directories for menu
• Add C:\mssdk\lib to the Directories box and make sure it is located first on the list and click OK

Your compiler should now be ready for DirectDraw programming.

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