Crash while loading .scheme

[mixael]

Hi.
I'm trying to use cegui with ogre as it shown in the tutorial (http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/Basic+Tutorial+7). I have two questions:
1. Why cegui.log is nowhere to be found? I've even tried to use

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   new CEGUI::DefaultLogger();
   CEGUI::DefaultLogger::getSingleton().setLogFilename("cegui.log");

before bootstrapSystem() but to no avail.

2. CEGUI throws CEGUI::GenericException at loading .scheme, however first two lines are working just fine (so resource paths are ok).

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   CEGUI::FontManager::getSingleton().createFromFile("DejaVuSans-12.font");
   CEGUI::ImageManager::getSingleton().loadImageset("AlfiskoSkin.imageset");
   CEGUI::SchemeManager::getSingleton().createFromFile("Generic.scheme");

Compiler: VS2010 SP1.

Thanks in advance.

[Kulik]

Check your working directory or set the log file path to be absolute. Then you should be able to find the log.

If even that fails, at least paste the exception message exactly as it is.

[mixael]

Well, i've found out that everything is ok in release configuration and log file is in its place, showing no errors. I guess I have to rebuild debug libs again.
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Is it possible to make library errors more clear? Earlier I spend two hours figuring out crash on bootstrapSystem and it turned out that expat.dll was missing.

[mixael]

Yeap, problem was in CEGUICoreWindowRendererSet_d.dll.

[Kulik]

Library load errors are cryptic for people unfamiliar with them. We accept any patches to improve them but it's tricky. Most loaders will not tell you the info you would like to see.

They just say "ABC failed to load", which can mean many things. The first thing experienced coder would do is roughly this:
1) check if the library is in path
2) check if the deps of the library are in path, recursively
3) check if any symbols are unresolved

It would be pretty cool if our loader code did that in case of a failure but I don't know how to do it in a cross platform way.