microsoft/DirectX-Headers

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Official DirectX headers available under an open source license

Stars: 743
Forks: 202
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 23
Avg merge: 5d 10h
Merged PRs (30d): 2

Dominant language: C
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 7, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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23 open issues indexed

[1.721.1-preview] d3d12.h introduced ID3D12StateObjectDatabaseFactory1 which references ID3D12InfoQueue, but the header is missing the forward declaration Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#238 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Off by one in D3DX12GetCopyableFootprints? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#233 · Opened Jun 6, 2026
Discrepancy between documentation and implementation for WSL Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#218 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 14, 2026
Macro Definition Spelling Error in d3d12.h of Windows SDK 10.0.26100.0 Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#211 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 10, 2026
D3D12CalcSubresource is missing Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#208 · Opened Dec 19, 2025
Missing DXProgrammableCapture.h Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#207 · Opened Dec 18, 2025
Fields of OPTIONS19 are missing _Out_ SAL annotation Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#202 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 7, 2025
header-only target in cmake/meson Open

cmake

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#197 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 3, 2025
GetTileShape for packed formats Open

bug d3dx12

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#168 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 17, 2025
Support compilation on Linux/MacOS with DirectXShaderCompiler for ID3D12ShaderReflection Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#156 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 9, 2025
`D3D12_RT_FORMAT_ARRAY` type is missing the `typedef` Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#155 · Opened Jan 7, 2025
Expose properties such as Ray.payloadSize from CFunctionReflection::m_pProps to the front end of D3D12_FUNCTION_DESC Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#136 · Opened Jul 25, 2024
Typo in DXGK_DISPLAYMUX_SET_INTERNAL_PANEL_INFO.Bridgtness3Ranges Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#132 · Opened Jun 22, 2024
Pkg-config files generated by CMake do not include the WSL stubs Open

cmake wsl

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#131 · Opened Jun 17, 2024
Add a less broken alternative to ID3D12Device_GetAdapterLuid() Open

conformance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#121 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2024
`D3D12_PIPELINE_STATE_STREAM_DESC`'s `pPipelineStateSubobjectStream` should probably be a `const` pointer Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#119 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 29, 2024
Cam't build tests with meson in Linux Open

meson

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#109 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2023
DirectX-Headers-Check-Feature-Support-Test.exe and DirectX-Headers-Test.exe - Segmentation fault Open

conformance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#100 · 3 comments · Opened May 28, 2023
Trying to use d3dx12_property_format_table.cpp from Agility SDK not easy Open

d3dx12

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#88 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2023
Migration from Microsoft::WRL::ComPtr to winrt::com_ptr? Open

d3dx12 enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#85 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 28, 2022
Is that `dxcore_interface.h` and `dxcapi.h` can turn into idl files, so that they can be used by both c/c++ codes Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#70 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 1, 2022
d3dx12.h template UpdateSubresources SAL annotations are wrong Open

bug d3dx12

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#36 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 27, 2021
Use of CD3DX12_CPU_DESCRIPTOR_HANDLE in an array can result in static analysis warning Open

d3dx12 not our bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectX-Headers#6 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2021

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