Wgpu: Windows SDK requirement / Link Error 1181 for wgpu-native

[Phaiax]

Hello

Building wgpu-native v0.5 in windows gives

error: linking with `link.exe` failed: exit code: 1181`
...
LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'd3d12.lib'

(I do not have GLFW 3 installed and use the rust stable-msvc toolchain)

The solution was to install the Windows SDK (newest version 10.0.17763.0) via the Visual Studio installer (Change installation > single components > SDKs, .. > Windows 10 SDK).

Maybe that would be a good addition for the Getting Started wiki page. And it seems nightly is not required anymore?

Best regards, Phaiax

[grovesNL]

Hi @Phaiax! GLFW3 should be required to run any of the examples which use it (like triangle).

I agree that it would be useful to add a note to Getting Started about using an updated Windows SDK when building wgpu-native on Windows.

Nightly is only required to run cbindgen so we could clarify this in the wiki.

[grovesNL]

I've just updated https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/wiki/Getting-Started, could you take a look and let me know if I've missed anything? Thank you :)

[cwfitzgerald]

Closing as this issue seems to have been solved.

[tommy-mor]

to other people who may be having this issue: I could not find d3d12.lib because it was linking against other versions of the apis in C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits, from windows 8. I deleted the old apis, reinstalled the windows 10 one (so the installer could update the path), and it worked.