[SDL] I can't get to SDL_ttf work

[Eric Lilja]

Peter Mulholland skrev:
> Hello Eric,
> 
> Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 12:45:42 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> I developing under cygwin (and I'd like to be able to compile my 
>> projects under MSVC++ too) and I need to be able to print some simple 
>> text in my SDL programs. I can't build SDL_ttf myself (see thread 
>> above). Someone sent me a mingw build of SDL_ttf off-list and my 
>> programs compile and link using it but exit right away.
> 
> "Exit right away" isn't very helpful - why not run your program
> through GDB or even add some printf() debugging and find out where
> it's causing an exit?

(gdb) run
Starting program: /cygdrive/c/coding/OpenGL/TSBK05/lab1/1-3/sdl/1-3.exe
gdb: unknown target exception 0xc0000135 at 0x7c964ed1

Program received signal ?, Unknown signal.

Program exited with code 030000000465.
You can't do that without a process to debug.
(gdb) bt
No stack.

I said exit right away. It doesn't print anything no matter where I put 
it. So the executable gets seriosuly messed up as soon as I link with 
the TTF-library. Sigh.


> 
>> I don't like glut but I really miss glutBitmapCharacter() now. What 
>> should I do? I *need* to be able to print some simple text in my SDL 
>> programs (cout in the underlying console is not good enough for me) and
>> I want to continue using SDL but right now it seems I have no choice but
>> to go back to glut. :-(
> 
> You could create a bitmap with the contents of a font you'd like to
> print, and then use the blitter functions with appropriate rectangles
> to print strings. This would be faster than using TTF fonts if you
> don't want resizable fonts or Unicode stuff.
> 

Sounds like an awful lot of work but thanks for the idea and for your reply.

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