[SDL] I can't get to SDL_ttf work

[Peter Mulholland]

Hello Eric,

Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 11:44:45 PM, you wrote:

> (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.

Typical of GDB to be useless.

0xC0000135 is the Windows "This application failed to initialize
properly" error. You might want to try grabbing a copy of Depends and
see if this helps.

This error is usually produced when some DLL is found but fails to
load.


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

It seems that it's so useful people have already done it. This looks
like a good start:

http://www.linux-games.com/sfont/


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 Peter                            mailto:darkmatter at freeuk.com