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Need help with an error message virtual studio is giving me.

Enerjak · 2015-12-28T14:40:51

I'm not sure if this is the right board to post this in but here goes. I recently got this book from my library: http://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Rendering-DirectX-HLSL-Programming/dp/0321962729 . I downloaded the code from the companion website, tried to run the demos and got this: I attempted to find out what's wrong by doing this: But when I try to compile, I get these errors right here: 2>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(4460,5): error MSB3491: Could not write lines to file "Debug\HelloShadersDemo.vcxproj.FileListAbsolute.txt". The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. 3>C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\12.0\bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(4460,5): error MSB3491: Could not write lines to file "Debug\HelloStructsDemo.vcxproj.FileListAbsolute.txt". The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. I'm not sure what to do. Also, how do I turn those blue things off? those things by the const, sttd, and strs? Thanks in advance.

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Started by Enerjak December 14, 2015 01:16 AM

20 comments, last by Enerjak 8 years, 3 months ago

SmkViper

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December 24, 2015 02:48 PM

OK, well this situation is showing that Windows 10 installs targeting DX11 development are a lot more combersome than you'd think...

According to an MSDN blog it seems that Windows 10 the D3D SDK Layers is an 'optional graphics tool' for Visual Studio; so you either have to enable it from the optional Windows Features or via Visual Studio's optional graphics tools:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/03/31/visual-studio-2015-and-graphics-tools-for-windows-10.aspx

Just seems odd, since if I'm a developer going for a full install of Visual Studio and/or Windows SDKs shouldn't it at least ask if I want the Graphics Tools for debugging enabled?!?!

It did. When you installed Visual Studio you could have picked a custom installation and picked it.

So in other words, to use the Debugging layer on windows 10, I would need to install visual studio 2015?

No. As the linked article stated, you only need to install the Windows 10 optional feature to enable graphics debugging (since most people running Windows don't need DX debugging).

"To install the Graphics Tools optional feature, go to the Settings panel, under System, Apps & features, Manage optional Features, Add a feature, and then look for 'Graphics Tools'"