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Compilers that support DirectX 11 libraries

Which compilers other than Visual Studio 2010 and 2008 support the DirectX SDK Jun 2010?

I'm a newbie and I want to program using DirectX 11, but I have VERY limited Internet and you can download only small files (300 MB).

It would be interesting to know all the compilers that can be used for programming for DirectX 11.

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Here is a short list of compilers that actually include DirectX 10/11 headers and / or libraries in the field:

  • TDM-GCC x64 starts at version 4.7 with DirectX 10/11 headers and libraries: http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/
  • TDM-GCC x64 build 4.6.1 comes with most DirectX 10/11 headers and libraries, but has limited support for the DWM API out of the box: libraries for x86 are missing, and some headers are incorrect: https://sourceforge.net/p/tdm- gcc / feature-requests / 27 /
  • Regular Windows GCC (MinGW) does not contain anything from DirectX 10/11, but supports a limited portion of DirectX 9 out of the box (for example, D3DX is not included).
  • Orwell Dev-C ++ TDM-GCC 4.6.1 builds include DirectX 9/10/11 headers and libraries. They are provided by the Jun 2010 SDK, and the libraries are converted to the GCC.a format: http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/ .

In fact, any reasonably modern Windows compiler should be able to compile / support DirectX 10/11 headers . I saw that GCC 3.4.2 fights a lot, but this version is ancient. Headers are the easy part, so to speak: just upload the headers to the appropriate include folder, and your compiler suddenly supports DirectX 10/11.

The other part, libaries , is more complex. Getting both x64 and x64 libs and converting to GCC.a (using lib2a) can be annoying. Fortunately, compilers like TDM-GCC or IDE like Dev-C ++ started shipping with libs some time ago. And again, almost any recent compiler will suddenly support DirectX 10/11 if you dump .a files from libraries in the correct folder.

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