DirectXTex | DirectXTex texture processing library | Game Engine library

I'm trying to load a DDS texture. For that, I'm using DDSTextureLoader11 provided by DirectXTex. I already am using another texture loader from the same library - WICTextureLoader11.

The problem is, I don't get errors with WICTextureLoader11, however I do get errors either when including only DDSTextureLoader11, or when I use both of them.

This is some of the errors I get when I include both or only DDSTextureLoader11:

/WICTextureLoader11.cpp:51:17: error: redefinition of 'SetDebugObjectName'

/WICTextureLoader11.cpp:273:17: error: redefinition of 'MakeSRGB'

/WICTextureLoader11.cpp:747:17: error: no matching function for call to 'SetDebugObjectName'

/DDSTextureLoader.h:156:35: error: redefinition of default argument

I first thought that it was because both WICTextureLoader and DDSTextureLoader contain same functions, so when including both they "overlap" (i.e. compiler detects redefinition).

I'm using a batchfile to compile my project, where I link against both DirectXTex and DirectXTK. I also tried to include DDSTextureLoader, but without success: I've read the GitHub page of the DirectXTK's DDSTextureLoader, where I include that gives me a link error, which I guess is related to the incorrect call of the function CreateDDSTextureFromFile, so right now I'm trying to find a way to make the right call to the function.

Edit: no, it seems like I'm making the right function call. The wrong thing is that I'm trying to include DDSTextureLoader.h, but it also wants DDSTextureLoader.cpp. However, the errors occur when I include DDSTextureLoader.cpp, such as:

'DDSTextureLoader.cpp': call to 'BitsPerPixel' is ambiguous -> 'DirectXTex.h' or 'DDSTextureLoader' error: redefinition of 'SetDebugTextureInfo', previous definition in 'WICTextureLoader'.

I think, what I need is to include the .cpp file, but somehow get rid of the errors.

Edit2: So far, I tried to get rid of DirectXTex (I don't remember why I even needed it), and I've included WICTextureLoader.cpp and DDSTextureLoader.cpp. I downloaded and built the DirectXTK library, then included #pragma comment(lib, "directxtk.lib"). Now, the weird thing is: when I compile with Clang++, it doesn't throw any errors (but the program crashes after a second-long gray screen), however when I compile with cl (through vcvars64), I get fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'directxtk.lib'.

Edit3: Wait, I don't even know why I even need the directxtk.lib. So I removed it, and it compiles, but nothing works. I thought I needed that static library to resolve external symbol errors when trying to include the header (XXXTextureLoader.h), instead of the source (XXXTextureLoader.cpp).

Edit4: Wait,wait,wait. I think, I'm going crazy. Now, if I include only WICTextureLoader.cpp (and remove DDSTextureLoader.cpp), it gives me this error: (directxtk.lib) mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease'. I don't know why I did that, but I'm crazy now, I blindly brute-force my way through resolving this cursed issue. Why can't I just throw both headers in my directory and just simply include them? Is there a way to do so? What should I do? Why doesn't DirectXTK/Tex pages on GitHub give a step-by-step guide to how to use these things? The examples drive me crazy!

Please, help me resolve this what seems to be a simple issue.

Edit5: The last thing that I tried is to include DDSTextureLoader.h and WICTextureLoader.h, and use directxtk.lib, but it gives me these errors:

directxtk.lib(DDSTextureLoader.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease' in main-3dacd8.o

directxtk.lib(pch.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MD_DynamicRelease' doesn't match value 'MT_StaticRelease' in main-3dacd8.o

LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRT' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library

I don't use VS, so I don't know how to use /NODEFAULTLIB.

So far, I tried to do this with my DirectX 11 project to load a texture:

I downloaded DirectXTex source, included source files into my project and tried to compile, but got errors. I got errors from these header files: WICTextureLoader.h, DDSTextureLoader.h, and DirectXTex.h. The errors were from header files, and not my own code. Then, I tried WICTextureLoader11.h and DDSTextureLoader11.h, and the error that I got was undefined reference to the function CreateWICTextureFromFile()... (or the same, but with DDS).

I think, the problem here could be that the compiler (I use Clang/GCC) cannot find the .lib file? However, some people here mentioned that you could just throw the source files into your folder and everything would be OK. Seems like, it's not OK for me. If this is the problem, is there a way to get the binaries (.lib) without going through VS installation and other stuff?

I've been trying to implement a BC1 (DXT1) decompression algorithm in Java. Everything seems to work pretty precise but I've ran into problem with some blocks around transparent ones. I've been trying to resolve it for a few hours without success.

In short, after decompressing all blocks everything looks good except for the blocks whose are around transparent ones. During the development I've been checking results with results from DirectXTex (texconv) which is written in C++.

This is my result compared to DirectXTex one:

Here is the code I'm using: