MMORPG with SDL crashing

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k8swan wrote:> Hello,

I wrote a MMORPG for my senior project and I want to distribute it for free online. I built the program (the client side) in eclipse c++ and used opengl and SDL (including SDL_mixer, and SDL_ttf libraries). I can run the program fine from eclipse. The problem is, when I try package the executable by building for Release, when I click on the .exe I get a BSOD every time!!! I have included all the necessary .dll’s (SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, libfreetype ) in the Release folder (which has always worked in the past).

I have tried everything! When I run the .exe on windows XP instead of vista, nothing happens (no game… no crash). I tried taking everything out of main() …I just return 0 and it still BSOD’s. I have tried multiple versions of the .dll’s. I tried porting the whole project to visual studio (sortof impossible…). I can send you a compressed version of the game to look at if you email me (@k8swan). Please help!!!

Thanks in advance!

k8

(game website…with no game to download yet… http://stanford.edu/~pnaqlada/mithril/index.html)

its not pink, its lightish red

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Try the DLLs in this package:
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.2-mingw32.zipOn Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:04 PM, k8swan <kate_swanson at stanford.edu> wrote:

k8swan wrote:

Hello,
I wrote a MMORPG for my senior project and I want to distribute it for free
online. I built the program (the client side) in eclipse c++ and used opengl
and SDL (including SDL_mixer, and SDL_ttf libraries). I can run the program
fine from eclipse. The problem is, when I try package the executable by
building for Release, when I click on the .exe I get a BSOD every time!!! I
have included all the necessary .dll’s (SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, libfreetype
) in the Release folder (which has always worked in the past).

I have tried everything! When I run the .exe on windows XP instead of
vista, nothing happens (no game… no crash). I tried taking everything out
of main() …I just return 0 and it still BSOD’s. I have tried multiple
versions of the .dll’s. I tried porting the whole project to visual studio
(sortof impossible…). I can send you a compressed version of the game to
look at if you email me. Please help!!!

Thanks in advance!

k8

(game website…with no game to download yet…
http://stanford.edu/~pnaqlada/mithril/index.htmlhttp://stanford.edu/~pnaqlada/mithril/index.html
)

its not pink, its lightish red

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I gave that a try. Still BSOD :frowning:
Would it help if I upload the .exe pagkage?------------------------
its not pink, its lightish red

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No, but uploading the source might help. Have you tried debugging it?On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:43 AM, k8swan <kate_swanson at stanford.edu> wrote:

I gave that a try. Still BSOD [image: Sad]
Would it help if I upload the .exe pagkage?

its not pink, its lightish red

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-Sam Lantinga, Founder and President, Galaxy Gameworks LLC

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like I said, main(){return 0;} still crashes…so not much to debug in terms of source code.

Also, the program runs fine when I run from eclipse, its only when execute from the .exe directly…------------------------
its not pink, its lightish red