Re: [AD] Why are the DirectX GUIDs defined in Allegro?

[torhu <torhu.lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25.08.2013 01:56, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> There may have been a problem linking dxguid on older versions of MinGW (the
> DirectX that comes with MinGW.) It might be ok now since it's recommended to
> use the official DXSDK.

Ok, thanks. I've just copied the definitions I needed from Wine's source 
code so I don't have to deal with it for now.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: torhu
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:12 PM
> To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library
> Allegro
> Subject: [AD] Why are the DirectX GUIDs defined in Allegro?
>
> In wjoydxnu.cpp, there are lots of lines like this:
> DEFINE_PRIVATE_GUID(__al_GUID_XAxis,
> 0xA36D02E0,0xC9F3,0x11CF,0xBF,0xC7,0x44,0x45,0x53,0x54,0x00,0x00);
>
> Does anyone know why are they redefined instead of just using the
> definitions from the DirectX SDK?
>
> I'm asking because I need the GUID for for the wide (UNICODE) version of
> DirectInput8, which is not defined in Allegro. So I'm thinking about
> just deleting those definitions and switching to the ones from the
> DirectX SDK.  That means we need to link with dxguid.lib.
>
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