Question

I’m learning SFML library and i picked a code from the tutorial. it opens a window and it should make me able to close it again but when i close it it says

Debug Error!
Run-Time Check Failure #2 - stack around variable 'App' was corrupted.

and then the console stops working.
this is my code:

int main()
{
    // Create the main window
    sf::Window App(sf::VideoMode(800, 600, 32), "SFML Events");

    while (App.IsOpened())
    {
        // Process events
        sf::Event Event;
        while (App.GetEvent(Event))
        {
            // Close window : exit
            if (Event.Type == sf::Event::Closed)
                App.Close();

            // Escape key : exit
            if ((Event.Type == sf::Event::KeyPressed) && (Event.Key.Code == sf::Key::Escape))
                App.Close();
        }

        // Display window on screen
        App.Display();
    }

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;// = return 0
}

linking to the debug libraries are

sfml-system.lib
sfml-window.lib
sfml-system-d.lib//these are debug files
sfml-window-d.lib

if i ramove the first 2 and built my program it doesn’t give errors but when i open it it says :

the application was unable to start correctly (0xc0150002). click ok to close the application

i have a 64 bit computer. and in microsoft vc++ 2010 i can do build solution or debug and i always do build solution.

and i am building in release mode but i have also tried both and they both didn’t work

could someone please tell me what i could do to prevent this from happening or how this comes.

Answer 1

For these application startup issues,it is always a good idea to check if all dlls in the dependency closure are accessible – that is, are they all in the search PATH? We usually use dependency walker to check which dlls are missing, or use gflags for runtime diagnostic

While put your dlls with your exe in same folder works, it does not scale well, one way I usually do is put the library path in PATH environment variable.

And one thing to notice, sfml comes with prebuilt binrary for vs2005 and vs2008, as you are using vs2010, the underlying c runtime library(msvcrt) is different, there would be potential problems – you would better build sfml from source yourself using vs2010 or use vs2005/vs2008, just to be consistent