Not a while back, I purchased Frank Luna's Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11. Today, I decided to start reading it to get into 3D programming, and I encountered the deprecated effects library problem (or at least, I'm guessing it's that). The first few pages are about setting up a demo project, and when I finally followed all the steps and built the program, I was met with 9 build errors, 7 of them being from the Effects11.lib file (that I got from the book's disk containing the source code). Below is a screenshot of the error log. I would love it if someone points me in the right direction as to how to set up the environment so I can run all the following projects without the effects library causing trouble.

Extra Info:

- I have the June 2010 SDK all set up

- I use Visual Studio 2013

I fixed the LNK2019 problem, and as for LNK2038, downloading VS2010 (I read somewhere that usingcVS2010 will solve some of the problems within the book) and opening the project file directly from the disc provided with the book seems to fix it (initially, for the demo, the author instructed us to copy the contents of the demo project and paste it into a blank Win32 project directory and then adding the items from there, instead of using the "Add Project/Solution" button). I'm not sure if this solves the deprecated effects library problem, but I did open another project just to check and it works fine as well.

Cozzie, would you mind telling me how you would do that? Or perhaps link me to a tutorial that explains it? I'm not the best with VS (sorry for any inconvenience).

The compiler versions are wrong. You have two options.

You can rebuild the effects libraries using your current compiler. https://github.com/Microsoft/FX11

Or you can install the windows 7 sdk. Which theoretically -should- work. Maybe.

Personally though, I sincerely suggest that you get familiar with not working with the effects library. It's ok to use it to help you learn the basics of the DirectX library. But when you're comfortable enough... drop that sucker immediately.

There's not much control that goes into it, and it becomes a huge hassle with larger or more complex projects (By that... I mean something as simple as a 3D maze game, or a 2D platformer). Directx's documentation does an absolutely horrible job at informing you about it's own API's.

But Rastertek is pretty good about teaching you how to build your own passes and such. Also a dive into some open source projects will teach you a thing or two.

Yeah, I won't abandon the library just yet since I barely know anything of 3D graphics :P (just got through the math section of the book, and now onto DirectX Initialization ) , although after reading this book i'll follow your advice. Would you guys mind telling me how I would rebuild FX11 with Visual Studio? Like I said, I'm not the best with VS.

You need to build FX11 lib in VS2013, then replace the book's Effects11.lib(Release) and Effects11d.lib(Debug).

In VS, build a lib is a easy thing:

1.Create a new empty Win32 Console Application(Choose static lib as app's type), then copy your .h , .inl, .cpp files( Those files are in ..\Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\Samples\C++\Effects11, or you can download from github(Tangletail has given the link) ) into your project's folder and add them into project in VS.

2.Note that these has two folders named Binary, Inc. You also need to copy them into your project's folder. And in project's properties, modify C/C++--General--additional include directories, add .\Binary, .\Inc.

3.And in project's properties --- VC++ directories, you need to add "$(DXSDK_DIR)Include" into include directory.

DXSDK_DIR is like a marco that point to your SDK's directory.

4.Then build it in debug and release mode, it's OK.

(Maybe it has other options should be modified before compile, you could see details in SDK's Effects11 project property, but I test my way doesn't matter in learning this book, at least before Chapter 19 where I'm currently woking on).

Sorry for my poor English, hope it can help you.

Hmm, I did that and replaced the Effects.lib files in the Common folder provided by the book and now i'm getting another error: