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Asked: 2026-06-17T06:59:01+00:00

MSDN says you can compile your .hlsl files into byte arrays that are defined

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MSDN says you can compile your .hlsl files into byte arrays that are defined in header files. And this is the code they give.

    #include "PixelShader.h"
    ComPtr<ID3D11PixelShader> m_pPixelShader;
    hr = pDevice->CreatePixelShader(g_psshader, 
         sizeof(g_psshader), nullptr, &m_pPixelShader);

So g_psshader is the byte array. But how to define g_psshader?
There’s nowhere I can find talk about that. I tried sereral way but all failed. MSDN provided a Media extensions sample. But there is no PixelShader.h in that sample.

In case you missed the question: How to define g_psshader in the code above(I mean in header PixelShader.h).

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  1. Editorial Team

    The g_ prefix hints that it might be a global variable, and reading the CreatePixelShader documentation tells me that it’s a pointer to compiled bytecode. This means that you first have to actually load and compile the shader source, and then pass a pointer to this compiled code to the CreatePixelShader function. What function does the loading/compilation of the shader source I have no idea, as I don’t know anything about D3D, I’m just using some common sense (regarding the variable name) and a quick Internet search for the function documentation.

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