[Development] Heads up for Windows devs: ANGLE landing soon

[Stephen Chu]

On 11/2/12 4:19 AM, Koehne Kai wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
>> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On
>> Behalf Of Stephen Chu
>> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 9:08 PM
>> To: jason.barron at outlook.com
>> Cc: development at qt-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Development] Heads up for Windows devs: ANGLE landing
>> soon
>>
>> On 10/23/12 4:26 AM, Jason Barron wrote:
>>> This is just a heads up for people developing Qt on Windows. We will
>> shortly add a copy of the ANGLE project into the Qt 3rdparty tree and make
>> it the default OpenGL configuration if no other option is given. If you're not
>> familiar with ANGLE, you can read about it here:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/angleproject/
>>>
>>> You need to have the DirectX SDK installed to build ANGLE. It works on
>> MSVC and MinGW (both 32-bit and 64-bit). If you would prefer to continue
>> using desktop OpenGL, then simply pass "-opengl desktop" to configure and
>> you should get the same behavior as before. The change on Gerrit is here:
>>>
>>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,37290
>>>
>>> I'm working on updating the installation and deployment docs as well as
>> writing a blog post to give some more details.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason
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>>
>> I tried to build Qt 5 from git with mingw and ended up with this error:
>>
>> Project ERROR: Cannot determine DirectX SDK location. Please set
>> DXSDK_DIR environment variable.
>>
>> I thought a copy of angle library is included? Or do we need to install DirectX
>> SDK from now on?
>
> ANGLE is based on the DirectX SDK. While Mingw-w64 ships the appropriate headers, it's apparently missing the runtime library (d3dcompiler AFAIR) and the fxc.exe effect compiler from the Direct X SDK, used at compile time. So yes, right now you've to either install a Direct X SDK, or pass -opengl desktop .
>
> (I'm also worried that these dependencies break crosscompiling... we should really consider including pre-generated files here instead of relying on fxc.exe being available at compile time).
>
> Regards
>
> Kai
>

Thanks. I will try -opengl desktop since I don't use opengl in my 
Windows projects.

But which DirectX SDK version is required? I have Windows SDK 7.1 
installed but it doesn't seem to have those files you mentioned. I 
downloaded DirectX SDK (June 2010) and it failed to install on my 
Windows 7 X64 box.