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Hi. I'm trying to upgrade my project to CEGUI 0.6 and running into some problems.
First, I tried downloading the SDK for MSVC++ 8, but I kept getting a run-time "The application failed to initialize properly" error even when I'd put all the .dlls in my working directory.
So then I tried downloading the source and building myself. I edited the lua makefile config to build OpenGL, expat parser, and the samples. I copied over the dependencies folder from the SDK package and built debug_static. It gave a bunch of linker errors on the sample programs.
If I tried to input the static libraries into my project anyway (ignoring the failed sample programs), I get tons of linker warnings about "locally defined symbols" and undefined external symbol errors. I also get compiler warnings about "warning C4251: 'CEGUI::TreeItem::d_listItems' : class 'std::vector<_Ty>' needs to have dll-interface to be used by clients of class 'CEGUI::TreeItem'"
So then I tried the dlls instead of the statics libs... I was able to build them and then build my project fine; but when I try to run it, I get the "The application failed to initialize properly" error again.
I'd rather use the statics than the .dlls, but if I could get either working, that'd be good. Any help?

Edit: And another rider question... I keep seeing good wiki articles linked to like this one. But when I navigate to the articles section in the wiki, I only see 2. How do I find all these other articles?

Edit Edit: Um... am I allowed to ask a third question? How do you change what image codec CEGUI uses to load images? It seems to be using the TGA codec by default which seems to dislike my 8-bit .png files. (I could not get it to load an 8-bit tga either and had to make it 24, which seems wasteful.)

Hi,

What were the linker errors you were getting - such information is surprisingly useful when trying to diagnose issues

You can safely ignore the C4251 warnings.

For static builds, please ensure you have defined CEGUI_STATIC in the preprocessor definitions for your project.

Not sure why the dynamically linked version fails to start, posting the text of the project file may be useful (just the compiler and linker config parts if you like).

The good wiki stuff can be found in Tutorials and Code Snippets. We are (slowly) updating and cleaning up the wiki content, so please bear with us on that one

For changing the image codec, you can change the default in the config.lua file, or you can specify another one at runtime (dll builds only) by using the OpenGLRenderer::setImageCodec member and passing in the name of the codec to use, without the CEGUI prefix (so for examle, "DevILImageCodec" to use the CEGUIDevILImageCodec.dll module):


HTH

CE.

I'll check at home how my config.lua looks which we used to build SDKs from. I doubt that i used the tga-only codec, but you'll never know

Well, defining CEGUI_STATIC made it go from 16 errors and 61 warnings to 14 errors and 0 warnings. That seems like progress. Anyway, here are the errors. I'm sorry for not giving the full errors last time, but I didn't want to post more than necessary. Anyway...



I'll go back to my working 0.5 configuration and check changing the image codec. Thanks again.

Edit: Here's the stuff from the dll-based project file you asked for:



The following files from the 0.6 build are in my executable /debug directory: CEGUIBase_d.dll, CEGUICoronaImageCodec_d.dll, CEGUIDevILImageCodec_d.dll, CEGUIExpatParser_d.dll, CEGUIFalagardWRBase_d.dll, CEGUIFreeImageImageCodec_d.dll, CEGUILua_d.dll, CEGUISILLYImageCodec_d.dll, CEGUITGAImageCodec_d.dll, OpenGLGUIRenderer_d.dll, tolua++_d.dll

Edit Edit: According to [url="http://www.dependencywalker.com/"]Dependency Walker[/url], it was missing the file "dwmapi.dll" I downloaded a copy [url="http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?dwmapi"]here[/url], and placed it in the executable directory, but it still fails to to run with the same error message ("The application failed to initialize properly (0x0150002). Click OK to terminate the application."). Any idea what dwmapi.dll has to do with CEGUI? Could there be multiple versions of that file?
I'm using MSVC++ 2005 Express if that matters.

Hi,

I have done some browsing The "failed to initialize" error is *highly* likely to be that you're using a non SP-1 release of the MSVC++ 2005. You should download and apply the appropriate SP1 for MSVC++ 2005 to resolve that issue.

The link errors in static builds are missing libs (wow!). Basically, you need to include some of the dependency libs - for pcre and expat, and also the glu32.lib (I think that's what it's called on Windows).

The dwmapi.dll is a Windows Vista thing. As far as i can tell it's not important if it's missing.

CE.