You're right, but I was missing the default assembly output written to the console window and wrongly assumed that I needed the /Cc option to produce it. All was good when I declared my techniques using 'technique10' instead of 'technique'. I did not discover the error immediately because I wasn't loading the FX file from ...

I solved the problem myself. Accidently, in my FX file I had written 'technique' instead of 'technique10', so no code was being compiled and thus no assembly generated.

I'm trying to get FXC to ouput an assembly listing from an FX file, uisng the /Cc option like this: fxc /T fx_4_0 /E VertexShader /Cc file.fx It only outputs a description of the cbuffers and offsets and sizes for variables. Also, the argument given to /E doesn't matter at all, ie. no errors if VertexShader doesn't ...