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Modified source code of Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance
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Directx 9 SDK issues #2

Open emanual4real opened 7 months ago

emanual4real commented 7 months ago

I'd love to get this game compiling and see what I can do with it.

I can't install directx 9 SDK on win 11. I tried extracting the exe with 7zip from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812 but I don't see any ddraw.lib.

Did you install an even older version? This looks like 9.29.1962.1

Shiryou commented 1 month ago

You don't need to install the DirectX 9 SDK. You only need to copy the necessary header files from the installer (I used the April 2005 SDK) and tell your compiler where to find them. I'm working on getting the source compiled right now and am writing about it here.

My goal is to get it to a point where I can start replacing old dependencies and improve the networking code. I'm not much of a C++ developer, so it might be slow going, but I did document the dependencies I got set up.