Philip Lamb wrote:

> The latest releases of the Microsoft Direct X SDK (version 9.0c) 
> includes a nice little note stating that support for building 
> applications against Direct X using MS VC++ 6 has been dropped as of 
> Direct X SDK 9.0c. So version 9.0b was the last version with support 
> for MS VC++ 6.
>
> DirectX is required by ARToolKit on Windows for the DirectShow 
> component which is required for DSVideoLib which is required for 
> libARVideo.

DSVideoLib works fine with the summer 2004 release of directx9.0c (if 
you typedef DWORD_PTR and LONG_PTR on your own). It does not work with 
the oct 2004 release anymore since microsoft decided to remove some of 
the samples (which in fact contained important headerfiles such as 
streams.h).

this depenendency on streams.h in the public interfice is not necessary. 
therefore i hope that Thomas Pintaric will soon release a new version 
that will work fine with the latest version of directx...

bye,
Daniel Wagner

Hi all,

This message is only relevant to people building ARToolKit on Windows.

The latest releases of the Microsoft Direct X SDK (version 9.0c) 
includes a nice little note stating that support for building 
applications against Direct X using MS VC++ 6 has been dropped as of 
Direct X SDK 9.0c. So version 9.0b was the last version with support 
for MS VC++ 6.

DirectX is required by ARToolKit on Windows for the DirectShow 
component which is required for DSVideoLib which is required for 
libARVideo.

What this may mean is that we will have to drop support for MS VC++ 6 
from ARToolKit at some stage. In order to gauge whether we can do 
this now, I'd be good to gauge how many of you are still using MS 
VC++ 6 with ARToolKit, and how many of you are using MS VC++ for 
VS.NET.

Phil.
-- 
Philip Lamb
Research Student,
Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ.
+64 3 3642987 x3070

Am Mi, den 27.10.2004 schrieb Daniel Wagner um 7:12:

> DSVideoLib works fine with the summer 2004 release of directx9.0c (if 
> you typedef DWORD_PTR and LONG_PTR on your own). It does not work with 
> the oct 2004 release anymore since microsoft decided to remove some of 
> the samples (which in fact contained important headerfiles such as 
> streams.h).
> 
> this depenendency on streams.h in the public interfice is not necessary. 
> therefore i hope that Thomas Pintaric will soon release a new version 
> that will work fine with the latest version of directx...

Until then you're fine if you Download the DX9 extras package for
October, which contains streams.h. Works for me (tm) (though Win is not
my main/preferred Platform for ARTK) and the students in my project. 

Regards,
Eike
-- 
Eike M. Lang <lang@i ......................>