D3DX9 SDK releases, DLL support (CIV4)

[Oliver Stieber]

--- Andrei Barbu <teval0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been playing with getting CIV4 to run on wine.
> http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=3632&iTestingId=125
> 
> I'm left with just one issue.
Hi,

Have you been able to find a no-cd patch for CIV4? 

> 
> D3DX9_26.DLL is missing. This is a D3D9 SDK release (they put one out every
> month or so from what I've seen, with a new DLL that has the number
> incremented). It's mostly like the original with some minor changes.
> 
> How would I support this in wine? I don't know the wine build system enough
> to extend it to do this.
> Is there a nice way to generate these DLLs and to include the d3dx9 dll so I
> just have to add in/fix missing calls?
> 
> This may not be an issue now, but as more and more games get released more
> will depend on these dlls.
> 

You can usually link d3dx9.dll to d3dx9_foo.dll without any problems.

Regards,
  Oliver.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrei
> > 
> 



		
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