From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-05-12T20:47:29+09:00
Subject: Re: FTGL Seg Faults on Win32

From: "Xavier" <spam2@noreality.net>
>
>> 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?


Regards,

Bill