Quote:Original post by opiaboy
I actually downloaded the platform sdk... i was talking about the directx sdk. I couldn't download the directx sdk, so I just sent the files I needed to myself, which were d3d9.h, d3dx9.h, d3d9.lib, and d3dx9.lib. Those were the files that I needed from the directx sdk. I put those 2 .h files in the header folder, and the 2 .lib files in the library folder, and the platform sdk was downloaded before I did that. So... what went wrong? lol... sorry for all this trouble!
Same thing. It's good to learn how to take something you learned from one situation and apply it to another. For instance I said "It sounds like you didn't actually install the SDK so much as copy a couple files over. But the SDK has far more than a few files and a large chunk of them will be necessary as many files include many other files." I said that about the Platform SDK, but it applies to all SDKs. The directX SDK header files include other header files that you didn't copy over.