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612 :: Unable to load dll and compile error

• jgoodgive (orginal) [2014-11-01T13:15:27+01:00] view original

  I am very doing some very rudementary SDL stuff and had it up and running on my Win8.1 laptop, but when copying my folder to my Win8.1 desktop and installing nimrod + aporia there, it compiles fine, but the dies when trying to access the SDL2.dll

  EDIT: using v 0.96 64bit

  Message in Aporia console:

  could not load: SDL2.dll > Process terminated with exit code 1

  Code is the same and dll is the same.

  the config file only has one line:

  --clibdir:lib

  and the dll is located in ./lib I have tried to copy the .dll to the project directory but doesnt change anything. Works great on my laptop and not at all on my desktop.

  Second issue: I can only compile my program using Aporia on my desktop if I run nimrod in mingw I get: cannot create directory: c:somepathgamenimcache (same if I run mingw as admin)

  And if I run in cmd (with --parallelBuild:1 for error messages) I get: C:Nimrodlib/nimbase.h:383:13: error: size of array 'assert_numbits' is negative typedef int assert_numbits[sizeof(NI) == sizeof(void*) && NIM_INTBITS == sizeof(NI)*8 ? 1 : -1];

  Hopefully you geniuses know what I am missing.

  Thanks J

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• jgoodgive (orginal) [2014-11-01T13:36:30+01:00] view original

  Update:

  When running nimrod_debug.exe c -r myfile.nim instead it does compile ok but crashes on the SDL2.dll like when running inside Aporia.

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• Araq (orginal) [2014-11-01T13:43:48+01:00] view original

  The 64bit installer had serious bugs. Please re-download and re-install! And then ensure not some other GCC is in your PATH.

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• jgoodgive (orginal) [2014-11-01T17:47:40+01:00] view original

  Thanks Araq,

  I uninstalled my old mingw as well as nimrod and aporia, reinstalled the latest 64 bit installer from http://nimrod-lang.org/download.html. Now I dont get the "size of array 'assert_numbits' is negative" but it still refuses to use the SDL2.dll.

  could not load: SDL2.dll > Process terminated with exit code 1

  Is there any way to get a clue on why it cant?

  /J

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• donydh (orginal) [2014-11-01T18:06:12+01:00] view original

  Did you download the 64bit sdl2.dll?

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• jgoodgive (orginal) [2014-11-01T18:29:55+01:00] view original

  Bingo!

  I must have had the 32bit dll since 32 bit Nimrod worked better before. But now it seems I have to have it im my root. Before I could have it in my./lib directory.

  My code looks like this: import sdl2 import sdl2/image import game

  Main

  when isMainModule:

  if not game.init("lab1", SDL_WINDOW_POS_CENTERED, SDL_WINDOW_POS_CENTERED, 960, 540, false):

  quit(1)

  while running:

  game.handleEvents() game.update() game.render()

  clean()

  and my config has only:

  --clibdir:lib

  What should I do to make it search in the lib directory?

  J

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• Araq (orginal) [2014-11-01T19:47:34+01:00] view original

  Well there is a limit to what we can do. How an exe resolves its DLL dependencies is dealt with by the operating system, not the compiler. Put the DLL next to the produced exe and things usually work.

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• jgoodgive (orginal) [2014-11-01T21:51:45+01:00] view original

  Done and that works.. was just an extra that for some reason worked on my laptop. But it really doesnt matter.

  You guys rock and this forum is badass (just missing a search function).

  A thousand thanks J

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