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VisualKnight
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Development on Windows 7 or Windows 8? What does the Oculus Team prefer?
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The Win8 start screen UI removed logic and replaced it with coloured boxes in my mind
I personally prefer working on Win7, but I've heard of many people who have used Win8 and have enjoyed it. I don't think Win8 is particularly good for developers compared to Win7 but at the same time it's not a complete disaster either. I'm pretty neutral.
Edit: Fixing the quote O.o
Edit 2#: Fixed
What i did was compiling "libOVR" using "VS2012 for Windows Desktop"->create a new Basic Direct3D example App using the fields of the "OculusRoomTiny"-Example in "VS2012 for Windows 8"->test this example App using "Windows App Cert Kit 2.2"
The example app did run fine but failed in the Certification Test due to calls to "API InitializeCriticalSection in kernel32.dll" and "API LoadLibraryW in kernel32.dll". Both calls are obviously done by "SensorFusion"-Class.
That simply means that you currently can build a Windows 8-Metro-App but it wouldnt be certified by Microsoft.
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Yes, 8 works. But the point was that the Oculus libs are using calls that are not allowed for Metro apps if you want to submit them to the Win8 store. They don't pass the so-called WACK test.
The question is if Oculus can modify their SDK so that it will pass the WACK test on Win8 so we have a chance to submit to the store.
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Lock::Lock(unsigned spinCount) { // Try to load function dynamically so that we don't require NT // On Windows NT we will use InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount static bool initTried = 0; static Function_InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount pInitFn = 0; if (!initTried) { HMODULE hmodule = ::LoadLibrary(OVR_STR("kernel32.dll")); pInitFn = (Function_InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount) ::GetProcAddress(hmodule, "InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount"); initTried = 1; } // Initialize the critical section if (pInitFn) pInitFn(&cs, spinCount); else ::InitializeCriticalSection(&cs); }In Winrt you can't call LoadLibrary, InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount or InitializeCriticalSection.GetProcAddress still works (you need to get the library handle from LoadPackageLibrary, which won't load kernel32).
There's InitializeCriticalSectionEx (which has a spincount). But it's only available on Vista and above.
Then again, windows 8 metro apps can't run on older windows anyway, so if you build ovr for windows 8 metro then a define could replace all that code with InitializeCriticalSectionEx instead of trying to decide at runtime if the function is there.
Thx a ton, man. Without you i would have possibly searched hours for that ;-) Created a new Topic in the General Development section posting the code.