I do not want the D3D11 library to depend on a specific compiler
version. This way, I do not have to distribute D3D Compiler libraries
with the program (proprietary binary blobs). Any particular version
works because the API for the D3DCompiler function appears to be the
same; the only things that change are other features and additions
mostly (at least as far as I can tell). Using any version available on
the system should be more than sufficient rather than depending on some
specific D3D compiler version.
If the user doesn't have it, a download of the latest D3D distributables
should be fine, though it should work with the ones that come with
windows 7+ as well.