Is it possible to develop DirectX apps in Linux?

Question

More out of interest than anything else, but can you compile a DirectX app under linux?

Obviously there's no official SDK, but I was thinking it might be possible with wine.

Presumably wine has an implementation of the DirectX interface in order to run games? Is it possible to link against that? (edit: This is called winelib)

Failing that, maybe a mingw cross compiler with the app running under wine.

Half answered my own question here, but wondered if anyone had heard of anything like this being done?

Answer 1

I've had some luck with this. I've managed to compile this simple Direct3D example.

I used winelib for this (wine-dev package on Ubuntu). Thanks to alastair for pointing me to winelib.

I modified the source slightly to convert the wchars to chars (1 on line 52, 2 on line 55, by removing the L before the string literals). There may be a way around this, but this got it up and running.

I then compiled the source with the following:

wineg++ -ld3d9 -ld3dx9 triangle.cpp

This generates an a.out.exe.so binary, as well as an a.out script to run it under wine.