VC7 and SDL

Anthony_Thomasel · February 17, 2002, 8:30pm

hi

Has anyone had any problems using SDL and Visual C++ 7.0? A program that used to work when compiled with 6.0 will no longer work when compiled with 7.0. It compiles fine, no errors, but when I try to run the .EXE it crashes. Same options in both cases. I have rebuilt the libs and DLLs with no success. Any of my non SDL programs on the other hand will work perfectly.

Any ideas?
Anthony

Anthony_Thomasel · February 19, 2002, 11:44am

oops, forgot here, the version i’m trying to use is 1.2.3. nothing happens, a wondow will open then i get the lovely crash dialog. this doesn’t happen with the exact same program compiled with VC6.----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony T.
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 11:28 PM
Subject: [SDL] VC7 and SDL

hi

Has anyone had any problems using SDL and Visual C++ 7.0? A program that used to work when compiled with 6.0 will no longer work when compiled with 7.0. It compiles fine, no errors, but when I try to run the .EXE it crashes. Same options in both cases. I have rebuilt the libs and DLLs with no success. Any of my non SDL programs on the other hand will work perfectly.

Any ideas?
Anthony

slouken · February 19, 2002, 2:40pm

oops, forgot here, the version i’m trying to use is 1.2.3. nothing happens, a wondow will open then i get the lovely crash dialog. this doesn’t happen with the exact same program compiled with VC6.

Wierd. Are you able to debug the program? Have you rebuilt SDL with VC7?

I don’t have access to VC7 myself…

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

Anthony_Thomasel · February 19, 2002, 5:03pm

And its about to get weirder…

The first thing I did was rebuild the libs/dlls with VC7. Before I did a
clean, it said “SDL - up-to-date” which means it doesn’t look like there is
any difference between libs/dlls built with VC6 and VC7. Then I just deleted
all the intermediate files and rebuilt, and still no luck.

Ok, now if I go to “Build Solution” and run the exe created, it crashes.
Window pops up, then i get the error dialog immediately.

If I run it in VC7’s debugger (Debug->Start) the program will run.
This is the output from the crash window:
AppName: invaders4.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: sdl.dll

ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00000000

As you can see this is less than helpful…> ----- Original Message -----

From: slouken@devolution.com (Sam Lantinga)
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SDL] VC7 and SDL

Wierd. Are you able to debug the program? Have you rebuilt SDL with VC7?

I don’t have access to VC7 myself…

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

Jordan_Wilberding · February 19, 2002, 5:33pm

Do you have the full version of Visual Studio .NET or are you using the SDK?

I am downloading the SDK right now to see if I can be of some help.> And its about to get weirder…

The first thing I did was rebuild the libs/dlls with VC7. Before I did a
clean, it said “SDL - up-to-date” which means it doesn’t look like there is
any difference between libs/dlls built with VC6 and VC7. Then I just
deleted all the intermediate files and rebuilt, and still no luck.

Ok, now if I go to “Build Solution” and run the exe created, it crashes.
Window pops up, then i get the error dialog immediately.

If I run it in VC7’s debugger (Debug->Start) the program will run.
This is the output from the crash window:
AppName: invaders4.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: sdl.dll

ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00000000

As you can see this is less than helpful…

----- Original Message -----
From: “Sam Lantinga”
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SDL] VC7 and SDL

Wierd. Are you able to debug the program? Have you rebuilt SDL with VC7?

I don’t have access to VC7 myself…

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

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Anthony_Thomasel · February 19, 2002, 6:13pm

I’m using the full version of Visual C++ .NET.

To build the libs, I just unzip the source archive and use the workspaces
found in the VisualC.zip file.> ----- Original Message -----

From: diginux@diginux.net (Jordan Wilberding)
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: [SDL] VC7 and SDL

Do you have the full version of Visual Studio .NET or are you using the
SDK?

I am downloading the SDK right now to see if I can be of some help.

And its about to get weirder…

The first thing I did was rebuild the libs/dlls with VC7. Before I did a
clean, it said “SDL - up-to-date” which means it doesn’t look like there
is

any difference between libs/dlls built with VC6 and VC7. Then I just
deleted all the intermediate files and rebuilt, and still no luck.

Ok, now if I go to “Build Solution” and run the exe created, it crashes.
Window pops up, then i get the error dialog immediately.

If I run it in VC7’s debugger (Debug->Start) the program will run.
This is the output from the crash window:
AppName: invaders4.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: sdl.dll

ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00000000

As you can see this is less than helpful…

----- Original Message -----
From: “Sam Lantinga”
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SDL] VC7 and SDL

Wierd. Are you able to debug the program? Have you rebuilt SDL with
VC7?

I don’t have access to VC7 myself…

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

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Jordan_Wilberding · February 19, 2002, 6:21pm

Well I downloaded the Visual Studio .NET SDK (the free version of VC7 from
Microsoft) and here is what I came up with.

First of all I used libs compiled by VC6, because I could not find a makefile
interpreter for VC7.

First of all I made a quick program that initialized SDL and a screen and it
worked just great. I then decided to try out some of the test files which
come with SDL: testbitmap.c, testwin.c, testwm.c, testalpha.c, testlock.c,
and testvidinfo.c I am sure that rest will compile as well and work
fine(including mouse clicks, focus, and etc.). So I am not sure what the
problem is. Anthony, what exactly is the code are you trying to compile? You
using any other libs besides SDL?

Also, on a side note, I would just like to say with VC7 when you start an SDL
app the console window comes up and works too! :)–
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Anthony_Thomasel · February 19, 2002, 6:50pm

Nope, no other libs. Now that I know its me, I’m going to have to go through
the fun process of looking for any old DLLs hanging around that I may have
missed.> ----- Original Message -----

From: diginux@diginux.net (Jordan Wilberding)
To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: [SDL] VC7 and SDL

Well I downloaded the Visual Studio .NET SDK (the free version of VC7 from
Microsoft) and here is what I came up with.

First of all I used libs compiled by VC6, because I could not find a
makefile
interpreter for VC7.

First of all I made a quick program that initialized SDL and a screen and
it
worked just great. I then decided to try out some of the test files which
come with SDL: testbitmap.c, testwin.c, testwm.c, testalpha.c, testlock.c,
and testvidinfo.c I am sure that rest will compile as well and work
fine(including mouse clicks, focus, and etc.). So I am not sure what the
problem is. Anthony, what exactly is the code are you trying to compile?
You
using any other libs besides SDL?

James_Turk · October 6, 2002, 9:06pm

I was curious if I should contribute VC7 project files (the VC6 project
files currently attached do actually work if you take the 10 seconds or
to let VC7 import them into VC7) Also I can give simple directions for
configuring SDL with VC7 for the site to accompany my project files,
Just wondering if there is a need for this since the VC6 ones currently
convert fine.

Andre_Krause · October 7, 2002, 1:49am

Yes, please include vc7 files, because i often encounter the error
message, that vc7 could not convert some vc6 - project files. Sure, this
seems not to be the case for sdl, but it’s only some bytes more…

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----Von: sdl-admin at libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-admin at libsdl.org] Im Auftrag von
James Turk
Gesendet: Montag, 7. Oktober 2002 06:04
An: sdl at libsdl.org
Betreff: [SDL] VC7 and SDL

I was curious if I should contribute VC7 project files (the VC6 project
files currently attached do actually work if you take the 10 seconds or
to let VC7 import them into VC7) Also I can give simple directions for
configuring SDL with VC7 for the site to accompany my project files,
Just wondering if there is a need for this since the VC6 ones currently
convert fine.

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James_Turk · October 7, 2002, 5:11pm

Andre Krause wrote:

Yes, please include vc7 files, because i often encounter the error
message, that vc7 could not convert some vc6 - project files. Sure, this
seems not to be the case for sdl, but it’s only some bytes more…

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
James Turk

I was curious if I should contribute VC7 project files (the VC6 project
files currently attached do actually work if you take the 10 seconds or
to let VC7 import them into VC7) Also I can give simple directions for
configuring SDL with VC7 for the site to accompany my project files,
Just wondering if there is a need for this since the VC6 ones currently
convert fine.

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http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl

I was curious, how should I package the .sln and .vcproj files? I
figure I could either add a new zip file (similar to VisualC.zip). Or
just put the VC7 files in VisualC.zip along with the VC6 files. Also I
am writing an updated version of the VisualC.html file, and I was
wondering if that too should be a separate file, or just integrated with
the VC++5 and 6 directions. (I am rewriting it with my added project
files because there is a better way to do it for VC++7 that makes adding
the .lib files much easier.)> Von: sdl-admin at libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-admin at libsdl.org] Im Auftrag von

Gesendet: Montag, 7. Oktober 2002 06:04
An: sdl at libsdl.org
Betreff: [SDL] VC7 and SDL

slouken · October 7, 2002, 6:51pm

I was curious, how should I package the .sln and .vcproj files? I
figure I could either add a new zip file (similar to VisualC.zip). Or
just put the VC7 files in VisualC.zip along with the VC6 files. Also I
am writing an updated version of the VisualC.html file, and I was
wondering if that too should be a separate file, or just integrated with
the VC++5 and 6 directions. (I am rewriting it with my added project
files because there is a better way to do it for VC++7 that makes adding
the .lib files much easier.)

Just write a new VC7 package and I’ll include it in the “extras” portion
of the SDL website.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment