HLSL Compiler and d3dcompiler_xx.dll

[Henri Verbeet]

On 14 April 2010 13:08, Matijn Woudt <tijnema at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to implement the HLSL compiler, but I want to make sure I'm
> taking the right direction.
> For the compiler:
> preprocessor(wpp)->hlslparser/compiler(lex/bison)->bytecode
> writer(same as for the shader assembler).
> Now the question is where to implement the compiler. It can be called
> from at least 3 places, d3dx9_xx, d3d10_xx and d3dcompiler_xx.
> It seems to me that d3dx9_xx and d3d10_xx are forwarding their calls
> to d3dcompiler_xx.

In earlier d3dx9 versions the compiler was part of d3dx9, but at some
point Microsoft introduced d3dcompiler. I think it makes sense to
switch to the same scheme in Wine. Note that d3dcompiler is (somewhat)
documented at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd607340%28v=VS.85%29.aspx