Simple tutorial only displays console window

[zerox]

Hello everyone,

I recently took an interest in SFML for a project of mine, however, I am unable to get even the simplest looking tutorials to work.

The first tutorial that is only the console window outputting times with cout runs fine. However, if I try and do:

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////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Headers
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#include <SFML/Window.hpp>


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// Entry point of application
///
/// \return Application exit code
///
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
int main()
{
    // Create the main window
    sf::Window App(sf::VideoMode(800, 600, 32), "SFML Window");

    // Start main loop
    bool Running = true;
    while (Running)
    {
        App.Display();
    }

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

my program simply hangs in the console window with no output. I can't even seem to debug the code so I can't step through it. I tried adding cout statements at strategic places but it doesn't hit any even if it is the first statement. However, if I put JUST a cout statement in main and comment the rest out it runs fine and displays the output.

In my linker inputs I have:

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sfml-system-d.lib sfml-graphics-d.lib sfml-window-d.lib

so I don't knwo why it won't even let me debug!

I also have as my pre-processor defines:

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SFML_DYNAMIC;WIN32;NDEBUG;_CONSOLE

Linker SubSystem to Console and I can't really think of anything else so I'm a little bit frustrated at this point  :oops: .

Any help would be greatly appreicated,

Zerox~

[Laurent]

Do you have a USB joystick connected? If so, you can disconnect it and try again.

[zerox]

How bizzare, I unplugged them and it runs just fine. Displays the window and I can debug fine.

Is there some kind of more permanent workaround for this? And more to the point, what am I going to do about having my game use a joystick XD?

Thanks for your post though, straight to the point =).

[Laurent]

It's a weird deadlock, which happens when I call Win32 joystick functions during the initialization phase.

I'm going to fix this soon.

[zerox]

Okay then, I will just leave my joypayds unplugged until I hear anything about a fix.

Thanks for taking the time to answer~

[Laurent]

Someone submittted a patch to fix this:
http://orx-project.org/orx/SFML1.4-win32-deadlock.zip

You can use it until the "official" fix.

[Laurent]

It's now also fixed in the latest SVN revision