Can we programmatically verify that we're unaffected? Does this just require a local Win7 build, or do we need to loop RelEng in?
-Alex On Feb 27, 2013, at 7:10 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/2/27 Gian-Carlo Pascutto <gpascu...@mozilla.com> > >> Hi all, >> >> just a heads up: the Windows 7 platform update that's being shipped >> today has the following KB article: >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2670838?wa=wsignin1.0 >> >> Interesting part: >> "If you are a Windows 7 DirectX developer who uses the June 2010 DirectX >> Software Development Kit (SDK), you will have to update your development >> environments after you install this platform update." >> >> As far as I know, we use this for Windows/ANGLE builds. So it's possible >> these may now be broken? >> > > Fortunately, the next sentence reads: > > The following development .dll files that are associated with the DirectX > SDK <http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812> are > incompatible with this platform update: > > - D3D10SDKLayers.dll > - D3D11SDKLayers.dll > - D3D10ref.dll > - D2D1debug.dll > > > The only DirectX SDK DLL that we are still using is D3DCompiler.dll. As it > isn't listed above, it sounds like we're safe. > > That said, it is generally a good idea to upgrade DirectX SDKs when a newer > one comes out: we do run into D3DCompiler.dll bugs, and there is hope that > they would be fixed in newer versions. > > Benoit > > >> >> The recommended solution seems to be to use the Win8 SDK, but I >> understood we need specific flags to compile with that. >> >> Can someone who's most familiar with the Windows compiles clear this >> out, and perhaps update the wiki if needed? >> >> -- >> GCP >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
