PCSX2 Documentation/Compiling on Windows: Difference between revisions

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====DirectX SDK====
====DirectX SDK====
DirectX SDK installer is a problematic peace of software as installers that drop unsolicited software on target machine behind user's back are nothing good mainly due to 2 reasons:
DirectX SDK installer is a problematic peace of software as installers that drop unsolicited software on target machine behind user's back are nothing good mainly due to 2 reasons:
#the unsolicited software eats system resources, this is even more unpleasant if that software is never used;
#the unsolicited software eats system resources, this is even more unpleasant if any of those unsolicited software is never used;
#in these days when IT security threats are at large any unsolicited software is equivalent to a collection of security holes.
#in these days when IT security threats are at large any unsolicited software is equivalent to a collection of security holes.
Experimented with this installer on a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine virtual machine] and discovered it installs the following components without consent:
Experimented with this installer on a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine virtual machine] and discovered it installs the following components without consent:
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