Error when building the "Release" version of dxwrapper.

[RustyShacklefordIII]

I get the following error when I try to build the "Release" version of dxwrapper.dll in Visual Studio 2022:

Custom build for 'ddraw\Shaders\ColorKeyShader.hlsl;ddraw\Shaders\PaletteShader.hlsl;ddraw\Shaders\GammaPixelShader.hlsl' exited with code 1.

I can't figure out what's going wrong here, and building the "Debug" version works fine, it's just the "Release" version that gives this error, even when I choose to only build the "dxwrapper" project.

What am I missing here?

[elishacloud]

Looks like Visual Studio is trying to build the hlsl files directly.

Are you using the project files? You need to use the project files for this. I created a tool to build those.

Or if you don't plan to change the shaders you can just remove the hlsl files from the project, as I have already checked in the built version of them in a header file.

[RustyShacklefordIII]

I don't really know what you mean, I've set colorkeyshader.hlsl to be excluded from the build. I still get the error, and when I try to rebuild I get an error about dxwrapper-master\d3d8\BuildNo.rc having an unexpected end-of-file (it's empty, and pasting in the original file doesn't fix it). It doesn't matter whrther I use dxwrapper.vcxproj or dxwrapper.sln and whether I try to build just dxwrapper or the entire solution. None of these errors show up when I build the debug version of dxwrapper.

I just want to see if the release version performs better and can switch between resolutions faster than the debug version. Even the debug version already performs better than the 28 January version.

[elishacloud]

I get an error about dxwrapper-master\d3d8\BuildNo.rc having an unexpected end-of-file (it's empty, and pasting in the original file doesn't fix it).

That file is created by a build event. Looks like there is something wrong with your build events. These are all in the project file.

That file should have a single file with this content:

#define  FILEVERSION 1.13.0.0   

I just want to see if the release version performs better and can switch between resolutions faster than the debug version.

Not sure why it takes so long. I have only seen that on monitors that have slow resolution switching. Nothing can be done in that case, other than not switching resolutions or having the GPU do the scaling rather than the monitor.

[RustyShacklefordIII]

That file is created by a build event. Looks like there is something wrong with your build events. These are all in the project file.

Got it to work now: I removed all build events from the project (the debug version had none). I still got another error but that happened after dxwrapper.dll was already created.