Thanks folks - I found a mirror for the dx8 libs on Peter Puck's web site -
http://rain.prohosting.com/urebel/download.html Also, Peter Puck's web site is down at the moment - hopefully it will come back up: it is: http://sites.netscape.net/ptrpck/directx.htm I'll try installing these today and see if I can make some progress, thanks to everyone for their quick response! I'll send a DirectX section to the FAQ maintainer once I get all this working as a kind of payback. Regards --------------------------------- Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert. http://www.q-games.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "andy younger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Barubary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:30 AM Subject: Re: DirectX8/DirectInput + cygwin > Peter Puck has already made bindings for Direct X 8. The site appears to > be down at the moment, but if you google for > > dx8 "Peter Puck" > > you can probably find them, I believe these are MingW bindings, but they > work fine with cygwin. > > Contrary to popular belief you can use the COM/C++ bindings. Gcc's > default way of doing thunking is different than visual C's, but if you > use the compiler option -fvtable-thunks it uses the vtable method. Due > to this being a ABI change, you will need to build all your source files > with this. This obviously does not fix the name mangling > incompatibilities with Visual C, but on a COM interface such as DX, this > does not matter. > > The biggest problem you will have are with DirectShow, and the D3DX > libraries. > > DirectShow (or whatever it is called these days) has a C++ interface to > it, and as such will only work with visual C's mangling scheme. So no > joy there.. > > With D3DX, the problem is that the libraries are statically linked, and > use Visual C++'s name mangling scheme for most of the internal symbols. > This leaves them somewhat useless for any compiler rather than Visual C. > There are 2 solutions to this. > > - don't use them, they are convenient, but not essential to DX programming. > > - Make a wrapper DLL for them with visual C. I believe someone has > already done this to enable them to use the librarys in Borland C. A > google search should yield some answers. > > Cheers, > > Andy > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
