Hi all,
Sorry to disturb all of you. I’ve installed all the necessary SDL libraries but I get the below error message while running freedroidRPG:
[root at redhatlinux8.0 root]# freedroidRPG
Couldn’t initialize SDL: No available video device
All my X applications such as xterm, xclock, xchat, gaim, ooffice work fine. I’m using Red Hat Linux 8.0 with 2.4.18-14smp kernel.
I suspect that the error originates from SDL_image-1.2.3 and SDL_net-1.2.5:
[root at redhatlinux8.0 SDL_image-1.2.3]# grep “Couldn’t initialize” *
showimage.c: fprintf(stderr, “Couldn’t initialize SDL: %s\n”,SDL_GetError());
Binary file showimage.o matches
[root at redhatlinux8.0 SDL_image-1.2.3]# cd …/SDL_net-1.2.5
[root at redhatlinux8.0 SDL_net-1.2.5]# grep “Couldn’t initialize” *
chat.cpp: fprintf(stderr, “Couldn’t initialize SDL: %s\n”,SDL_GetError());
chat.cpp: fprintf(stderr, “Couldn’t initialize net: %s\n”,
chatd.c: fprintf(stderr, “Couldn’t initialize SDL: %s\n”,SDL_GetError());
chatd.c: fprintf(stderr, “Couldn’t initialize net: %s\n”,
SDLnet.c: SDLNet_SetError(“Couldn’t initialize Winsock 1.1\n”);
I’ve tried the below stuff as well:
[root at redhatlinux8.0 root]# DISPLAY=:0 ; export DISPLAY
[root at redhatlinux8.0 root]# xhost + localhost
[root at redhatlinux8.0 root]# xhost +
Edited the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and made sure it contains the line:
/usr/local/lib
and As root, ran /sbin/ldconfig
I’ve also made sure /usr/local/bin is in my execution path:
[root at redhatlinux8.0 root]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.0/bin
Below are some more information:
[root at redhatlinux8.0 root]# which sdl-config
/usr/local/bin/sdl-config
[root at redhatlinux8.0 root]# sdl-config --version
1.2.5
[root at redhatlinux8.0 root]# locate libSDL
/opt/tar_files/SDL-1.2.5/src/main/libSDLmain.a
/opt/tar_files/SDL-1.2.5/src/.libs/libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.5
/opt/tar_files/SDL-1.2.5/src/.libs/libSDL-1.2.so.0
/opt/tar_files/SDL-1.2.5/src/.libs/libSDL.so
/opt/tar_files/SDL-1.2.5/src/.libs/libSDL.lai
/opt/tar_files/SDL-1.2.5/src/.libs/libSDL.a
/opt/tar_files/SDL-1.2.5/src/.libs/libSDL.la
/opt/tar_files/SDL-1.2.5/src/libSDL.la
/opt/tar_files/SDL_image-1.2.3/.libs/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.2
/opt/tar_files/SDL_image-1.2.3/.libs/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0
/opt/tar_files/SDL_image-1.2.3/.libs/libSDL_image.so
/opt/tar_files/SDL_image-1.2.3/.libs/libSDL_image.a
/opt/tar_files/SDL_image-1.2.3/.libs/libSDL_image.lai
/opt/tar_files/SDL_image-1.2.3/.libs/libSDL_image.la
/opt/tar_files/SDL_image-1.2.3/libSDL_image.la
/opt/tar_files/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net-1.2.so.0.0.5
/opt/tar_files/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net-1.2.so.0
/opt/tar_files/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net.so
/opt/tar_files/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net.a
/opt/tar_files/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net.lai
/opt/tar_files/SDL_net-1.2.5/.libs/libSDL_net.la
/opt/tar_files/SDL_net-1.2.5/libSDL_net.la
/usr/local/lib/libSDLmain.a
/usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.5
/usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libSDL.so
/usr/local/lib/libSDL.la
/usr/local/lib/libSDL.a
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.2
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_image.so
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_image.la
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_image.a
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_net-1.2.so.0.0.5
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_net-1.2.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_net.so
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_net.la
/usr/local/lib/libSDL_net.a
[root at redhatlinux8.0 SDL-1.2.5]# tail config.log
#include “confdefs.h”
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/sem.h>
int main() {
union semun t;
; return 0; }
[root at redhatlinux8.0 SDL_image-1.2.3]# tail config.log
configure:1974: checking whether we are using GNU C
configure:2002: checking whether gcc accepts -g
configure:2034: checking for inline
configure:2085: checking for a BSD compatible install
configure:2201: checking for sdl-config
configure:2236: checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.4
configure:2321: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT conftest.c -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -lSDL -lpthread 1>&5
configure:2439: checking for jpeg_CreateDecompress in -ljpeg
configure:2520: checking for png_create_read_struct in -lpng
configure:2565: checking for uncompress in -lz
[root at redhatlinux8.0 SDL_net-1.2.5]# tail config.log
#line 2183 “configure”
#include “confdefs.h”
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. /
/ We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char GUI_Create();
int main() {
GUI_Create()
; return 0; }
Any advice would be very much appreciated and thanks in advance!
Yours sincerely,
Kim Leng–
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recompile it for linux …