Re: [AD] All D3D shader examples crash in EndPass

[Edgar Reynaldo <edgarreynaldo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/1/2016 8:59 PM, trent@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, December 1, 2016 5:58 pm, Edgar Reynaldo wrote:
> > As reported before a while ago, all of the shader example programs crash
> > when using D3D and HLSL. The shaders all compile and build fine, but
> > crash when attempting to draw them. Every program works fine when using
> > OpenGL instead.
> >
> > See this old thread for details :
> >
> > https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/615570
> >
> > I've been trying to debug it but I don't know why they crash. The calls
> > to DrawPrimtiveUP all seem to succeed and return D3D_OK but the programs
> > then crash on the next line in Effect.EndPass(). See lines 2735-2746 of
> > d3d_disp.cpp for details.
> >
> > Edgar
> Have you tried it with the official binaries? I compile my own with VS and
> I know that configuration works.
I compiled Allegro 5.2.GIT with MSYS2 and mingw-w64-x86_64 gcc 6.2.0 
statically and I can't get it to crash. It may be a problem with 
dx9mgw.zip. I'm not going to download the DirectX SDK to see if there is 
any difference. It's a giant hairball full of unnecessary bloat. And I'm 
not setup to compile Allegro with MSVC 2015 or 2010 to try that way.

As an aside, the official binaries don't come with the examples, but I 
think they should come with dynamic debug examples so people can help us 
fix problems, and as a perk, get to try out Allegro programs without any 
effort on their part.

Edgar

To test that I was using the dlls provided with dx9mgw.zip I set the 
path to that directory and that directory only, so it shouldn't have 
been using any other DirectX than what was provided with dx9mgw.zip.