If you really want to continue to use the legacy DirectX SDK components with Visual Studio 2012 or later, you can but you should note the details at the bottom of the MSDN page above. For a complete list of replacements for D3DX, see Living without D3DX. I recommend you also take a look at DirectX Tool Kit for DirectX 11 and it's tutorials. If you are using legacy Effects 11, you can use the version from GitHub. For math, you use DirectXMath that comes with the Windows SDK. See this blog post for the full details.įor HLSL, you use D3DCompile directly or the FXC that comes with the Windows SDK. UPDATE: For older projects, the legacy DirectX SDK 'end-of-life' June 2010 release of the D3DX9, D3DX10, and D3DX11 library is provided in this NuGet package which is to be combined with the Windows 10 SDK. That means D3DX11 is not part of the Windows SDK, and you shouldn't use it. If you are using Visual Studio 2013 or later, then you already have the Windows 8.1 SDK and optionally the Windows 10 SDK.Īn important detail is that the D3DX library (D3DX9, D3DX10, and D3DX11) is deprecated and only available in the legacy DirectX SDK. The Microsoft Doc page Where is the DirectX SDK? tells you to use the Windows SDK, specifically the Windows 8.0 SDK, Windows 8.1 SDK, or Windows 10 SDK to do DirectX development (which is assumed to be Direct3D 11 or Direct2D/DirectWrite).

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