Could not make a release build of a windows store game.

Question

Hi all,
Finally I finnished developing a 3D C++ and directx game to Wondows 8.1 store. I'm having problems runing a release build of my game, by getting this error:
error X4502: invalid vs_2_0 output semantic 'SV_Target'
Compiling the game in debug mode has no errors, it works ok. but in release mode not. I am using Visual studio 2015 preview, with platform toolset of Visual studio 2013 (V120), because v14 is not installed.
Admir

Answer 1

     Hi Admir,
     I believe that the problem is that your shader's settings in "Release" are different than "Debug" configuration. That happened to me.
 * Change your proyect to "Release" if you haven't done so,
 * Righ-click on your shaders and go to properties,
 * On the new window, click on "HLSL Compiler"
 * Make sure the shader type is set ("vertex", "pixel", etc). This field is usually the guilty one.
 * Make sure you are also using the right level (the default is 9_1)
     I had to do this checking in "Release" for every shader I added in Debug.
     Note that I'm not integrating to XML either. I'm just creating games using plain and simple DirectX,
     I hope it helps!!!
     Tarh Ik
PS: This posting has been posted "AS IS"
Tarh ik
Hi Tarh ik,
Your answer helped me a lot to solve the problem, error was caused because I had different shader levels for different shader files, and "pixel"or "vertex" shader type was not set for each pixel/vertex shader file. Now I am
able to make a release build of it without any errors.
Thank you!
Admir