Official DirectX headers available under an open source license

Posted by traxmaxx on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:42PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/microsoft/DirectX-Headers

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Re:Official DirectX headers available under an open source l... by lights0123 on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:01PM (#25566587)

> On Windows, a wchar_t is 2 bytes, but on Linux it is typically 4 bytes. The D3D12 ABI for WSL uses the native 4-byte wchar_t, to enable applications and the runtime to use the system C library to perform string manipulation.

sooo does that mean UTF-32 or UTF-16 with two zero bytes per character?

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Re:Official DirectX headers available under an open source l... by merb on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:15PM (#25566648)

since this is mit licensed, wouldn't it be possible to create a vulkan <-> dx translation layer so that even without wsl dx12 could be used on linux?

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Re:Official DirectX headers available under an open source l... by newerduder on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:09AM (#25569821)

DXVK is what you're thinking of.

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk

I think dx12 is feature complete, but some features are missing from earlier versions.

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Re:Official DirectX headers available under an open source l... by aspaceman on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:35PM (#25566769)

Wine and valve are working on this currently. Have a bunch of repos for it.

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