I've found an informative blog on these .dlls. This guy wrote a mini installer for them, I don't know about the legality of it...
http://inky.50megs.com/blogs/2005/10/directx-updates-dll-hell-revisited.htm
these aren't included in the standard direct3d package. These .dlls d3dx9_x.dll's come in the direct x redistributable package for software developers?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9226A611-62FE-4F61-... http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/910813/en-us?spid=9973&sid=1514
Also I've read that managed directx .dlls are supposed to be installed in the global assembly cache folder (C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC), but wine doesn't implement assemblies yet (Sxs.dll) as outlined in bug 5965.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sbscs/setup... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/i...
From: "H. Verbeet" hverbeet@gmail.com To: wine-devel@winehq.org Subject: Re: FEAR Combat Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:52:50 +0200
Not sure about the exact terms, but there are people distributing them, eg http://www.threelights.de/index.php?page=projects/d3dx9_xx_dll_files.php