I've got an extremely simple vertex shader that Visual Studio 2012 compiles into a .cso file. Now I want to load this file and create a vertex shader on the graphics device using the ID3D11Device::CreateVertexShader function.
So far I have the following code:
ifstream vs_stream;
size_t vs_size;
char* vs_data;
vs_stream.open(vsCompiledPath, ifstream::in | ifstream::binary);
if(vs_stream.good())
{
vs_stream.seekg(0, ios::end);
vs_size = size_t(vs_stream.tellg());
vs_data = new char[vs_size];
vs_stream.seekg(0, ios::beg);
vs_stream.read(&vs_data[0], vs_size);
vs_stream.close();
result = device->CreateVertexShader(&vs_data, vs_size, 0, &m_vertexShader);
if(FAILED(result))
{
return false;
}
}
else
{
return false;
}
I seem to be able to load the file fine, I get sane values in vs_size and vs_data however CreateVertexShader returns E_INVALIDARG and sets m_vertexShader to null.
How can I fix this error?
note that I can't use anything in the d3dx* headers since they are not supported in the Windows 8 App store
