DirectX Application Dependencies

Hi, I have an application that I wrote to convert .X files into a format needed for another application. In it I use various DirectX functions such as

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LPDIRECT3D9 d3d = NULL;
HWND hD3DWnd = NULL;
LPDIRECT3DDEVICE9 device = NULL;

bool CreateD3D9()
{
        d3d = Direct3DCreate9( D3D_SDK_VERSION );
        if (NULL == d3d)
                return false;

        WNDCLASSEX wcex = {sizeof(WNDCLASSEX)};
        wcex.lpszClassName        = "dxwind";
        wcex.lpfnWndProc = DefWindowProc;
        RegisterClassEx(&wcex);

        HWND hWnd = CreateWindow("dxwind", "", 0, -1,-1,-1,-1, NULL, NULL, 0, 0);

        if (NULL == hWnd)
                return false;

        D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS d3dpp = {};
        d3dpp.hDeviceWindow = hWnd;
        d3dpp.Windowed = TRUE;
        d3dpp.SwapEffect = D3DSWAPEFFECT_DISCARD;
        d3dpp.BackBufferFormat = D3DFMT_UNKNOWN;
        d3dpp.EnableAutoDepthStencil = TRUE;
        d3dpp.AutoDepthStencilFormat = D3DFMT_D24X8;
        d3dpp.PresentationInterval = D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_IMMEDIATE;

        HRESULT hr = d3d->CreateDevice( D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, D3DDEVTYPE_REF, NULL, D3DCREATE_HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING, &d3dpp, &device);

        if (FAILED(hr))
                return false;

        return true;
}

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The resulting application runs fine on any computer that has the DirectX SDK installed, but failed to initialize the object on an pc without it.

I am wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction as to what I need to include with the app to enable it to work without people having to install the whole DirectX SDK

Thanks Andrew

Distribute a release build, which should be linked to the release D3D libraries.

I did. It is linked via the Project properties include and lib directories and I have added the seperate lib files d3dx9.lib and d3d9.lib

It did not work.

The previous post said compile a "release" build and not "debug" one.

And also these:

1- you must install the same version of directX or newest one on the target system.

2- Depend on your compiler you must install visual C++ runtime library(vcredist_x86),
for VC++2005 located in :
Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\vcredist_x86

OR use a installer /VC++ setup
OR download it from internet
OR copy those dlls from redist folder of VC

if by release build you mean that the active build is set to release and C++ Config to Multithreaded DLL (/MD) I did that....

I am using VS 2008

I had the users do a DirectX update to make sure they had latest build that did no good, if I asked them to install the DirectX SDK then the app works fine.

use D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, not D3DDEVTYPE_REF

FYI...you can use the dependency walker to determine what other dlls are required to be distributed with your application.

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Originally Posted by Retarded

use D3DDEVTYPE_HAL, not D3DDEVTYPE_REF

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That did the trick... Thanks you very much... Andrew