DirectX 11 files cannot open source files

Question

I've come back to a Univeristy project I developed 5 years ago using Visual Studio 2010 using DirectX11. I'm now using VS2017 Community edition and would like to upgrade the project to work with it.

I initially had some issues with my own classes but switching the toolkit from VS 2010 to VS 2017 ironed the majority out.

I seem to be having issues now with DirectX files such as D3DX11.h and D3D10.h throwing 'Cannot open source file ' insert file name here ''. These files include: windows.h, limits.h, float.h (theres nearly 7000 errors all related)

I'm guessing it's not linked with the VS2017 toolkit either?

Any suggestions or even solutions?

Answer 1

You should retarget solution to the Windows SDK version and Platform toolset installed on your system (Project Properties -> General tab). This should fix issues with Windows SDK (including DirectX headers) and C++ standard headers. Then D3DX*** are not part of current Windows + DirectX SDK, it is actually a part of deprecated separate DirectX SDK (see d3dx11.h missing? ), modern applications should use DirectX Toolkit instead.