diff --git a/docs/source/initialsetup/compilingmame.rst b/docs/source/initialsetup/compilingmame.rst
index 0df34f5d12b..0d7b1f8459c 100644
--- a/docs/source/initialsetup/compilingmame.rst
+++ b/docs/source/initialsetup/compilingmame.rst
@@ -757,9 +757,10 @@ the Microsoft Windows SDK, you must do one of the following:
   Visual Studio project files.  This will set the target Windows version to
   Windows 8 (6.2).  The resulting binaries may not run on earlier versions of
   Windows.
-* Install the DirectX SDL and configure the **osd_windows** project to search
-  the DirectX header/library paths before searching the Microsoft Windows SDK
-  paths.
+* Install the `DirectX SDK <https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=6812>`_ (already included since Windows 8.0 SDK and
+  automatically installed with Visual Studio 2013 and later).  Configure the
+  **osd_windows** project to search the DirectX header/library paths before
+  searching the Microsoft Windows SDK paths.
 
 The MSVC compiler produces spurious warnings about potentially uninitialised
 local variables.  You currently need to add ``NOWERROR=1`` to the options passed