Hi,
I’m trying to use FLGT ruby on Windows XP, but am running into a
segmentation fault at ftgl_test.rb:38 (The first call through to the
FTGL library)
I am installing as follows:
Ruby O. Click installer for windows
Install ruby-opengl-0.32g
ruby extconf.rb
nmake
At this point the openGL samples work
3) Install FTGL
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install
4) Try to run ftgl_test.rb
ruby tests/ftgl_test.rb
At this point the openGL samples work
3) Install FTGL
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install
4) Try to run ftgl_test.rb
ruby tests/ftgl_test.rb
That’s strange. I’ll try to reproduce that problem here.
However, I’ve compiled it pretty recently on XP with
1.8.4 and it’s been working for me. I’ve put the binaries
online here:
Do these binaries work for you? Or do you still get the
crash?
No, unfortunately I tried on two different machines, also.
I placed them in the following locations:
ruby\bin\libftgl.dll
ruby\lib\libftgl.lib (Is this even required?)
libftgl.lib is not required, no. I just included it for completeness
sake in case
you needed to link with it at some point.
ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\ftgl.so
I’m thinking I might try and write a test harness in C++, this would
give me more info to work with (if it crashed), yes? At the moment, I’ve
got no idea where the problem is.
Also, FYI you can’t access .rb files stored on your server, but I
presume ftgl_test.rb is the same as the one in the latest release.
Oops! Yes, ftgl_test.rb is the same as the released version, except
I hacked the paths slightly so that it would load the .dll and .so files
out of the current directory. E.g.
ENV[‘PATH’] += “;.”
$:.unshift “.”
Well, this is peculiar. Why would it run fine on my system and crash
on yours, when we appear to have the same versions of various
software.
Have you tried building FTGL itself from source? I’m wondering if
it’s own C+±based demos would run on your system?
Do these binaries work for you? Or do you still get the
crash?
No, unfortunately I tried on two different machines, also.
I placed them in the following locations:
ruby\bin\libftgl.dll
ruby\lib\libftgl.lib (Is this even required?)
libftgl.lib is not required, no. I just included it for completeness
sake in case
you needed to link with it at some point.
ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\ftgl.so
I’m thinking I might try and write a test harness in C++, this would
give me more info to work with (if it crashed), yes? At the moment, I’ve
got no idea where the problem is.
Also, FYI you can’t access .rb files stored on your server, but I
presume ftgl_test.rb is the same as the one in the latest release.
Oops! Yes, ftgl_test.rb is the same as the released version, except
I hacked the paths slightly so that it would load the .dll and .so files
out of the current directory. E.g.
ENV[‘PATH’] += “;.”
$:.unshift “.”
Well, this is peculiar. Why would it run fine on my system and crash
on yours, when we appear to have the same versions of various
software.
Have you tried building FTGL itself from source? I’m wondering if
it’s own C+±based demos would run on your system?
In the process of getting the C++ FTGL demo to run, I noticed the
default font is c:\winnt.… Not valid on my machine Changed it to a
valid path and it works fine. Probably should throw an exception rather
than segfault, but I’m not familiar enough with bindings to write a
patch. If it’s a big deal to change, maybe mention it in the readme?
At this point the openGL samples work
3) Install FTGL
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
ruby setup.rb install
4) Try to run ftgl_test.rb
ruby tests/ftgl_test.rb
That’s strange. I’ll try to reproduce that problem here.
However, I’ve compiled it pretty recently on XP with
1.8.4 and it’s been working for me. I’ve put the binaries
online here:
Do these binaries work for you? Or do you still get the
crash?
Thanks,
Bill
No, unfortunately I tried on two different machines, also.
I placed them in the following locations:
ruby\bin\libftgl.dll
ruby\lib\libftgl.lib (Is this even required?)
ruby\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-mswin32\ftgl.so
I’m thinking I might try and write a test harness in C++, this would
give me more info to work with (if it crashed), yes? At the moment, I’ve
got no idea where the problem is.
Also, FYI you can’t access .rb files stored on your server, but I
presume ftgl_test.rb is the same as the one in the latest release.
Thanks for you help,
Xavier
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I tried on two different machines, also.