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Looking for addons in wrong directory
eversojk
Member #15,510
February 2014

I am currently following a tutorial for Allegro 5 and when trying to use al_draw_text, I get a seg fault. After using gdb, I found that it is looking in my downloads directory for the text addon. Any idea why this would be?

I am on Linux Mint 16, using g++ 4.8.1 and Allegro 5.0.11.

GDB output:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
al_draw_ustr (font=font@entry=0x0, color=..., x=x@entry=50, y=50, flags=flags@entry=0, ustr=0x7fffffffdf80)
    at /home/me/Downloads/allegro/addons/font/text.c:93
93  /home/me/Downloads/allegro/addons/font/text.c: No such file or directory.

GDB backtrace:

#0  al_draw_ustr (font=font@entry=0x0, color=..., x=x@entry=50, y=50, flags=flags@entry=0, ustr=0x7fffffffdf80)
    at /home/me/Downloads/allegro/addons/font/text.c:93
#1  0x00007ffff76f5183 in al_draw_text (font=0x0, color=..., x=50, y=<optimized out>, flags=0, text=<optimized out>)
    at /home/me/Downloads/allegro/addons/font/text.c:106
#2  0x0000000000400c41 in main () at main.cpp:29

My tutorial file:

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1#include <allegro5/allegro.h> 2#include <allegro5/allegro_font.h> 3#include <allegro5/allegro_ttf.h> 4#include <allegro5/allegro_native_dialog.h> 5 6int main(void) { 7 ALLEGRO_DISPLAY *display = NULL; 8 9 if (!al_init()) { 10 al_show_native_message_box(NULL, NULL, NULL, 11 "failed to initialize allegro!", NULL, ALLEGRO_MESSAGEBOX_ERROR); 12 return -1; 13 } 14 15 display = al_create_display(640, 480); 16 17 if (!display) { 18 al_show_native_message_box(NULL, NULL, NULL, 19 "failed to initialize display!", NULL, ALLEGRO_MESSAGEBOX_ERROR); 20 return -1; 21 } 22 23 al_init_font_addon(); 24 al_init_ttf_addon(); 25 26 ALLEGRO_FONT *font24 = al_load_font("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-Mono-R.ttf", 24, 0); 27 28 al_clear_to_color(al_map_rgb(0, 0, 0)); 29 al_draw_text(font24, al_map_rgb(255, 0, 255), 50, 50, 0, "You like my font?"); 30 al_flip_display(); 31 al_rest(3.0); 32 al_destroy_display(display); 33 34 return 0; 35}

Makefile:

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1CXX=g++ 2CFLAGS= 3LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib -lallegro -lallegro_dialog -lallegro_font -lallegro_ttf 4INCLUDE=-I. -I/usr/include/allegro5 5 6OBJS=main.cpp 7OUT=main 8 9all: main 10 11main: $(OBJS); $(CXX) $(OBJS) -o $(OUT) $(INCLUDE) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) 12 13debug: $(OBJS); $(CXX) -O0 -g $(OBJS) -o $(OUT) $(INCLUDE) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) 14 15clean: ; rm -rf *.o main

pkrcel
Member #14,001
February 2012

Check if the font is actually loaded by verifing the retunr code of al_load_font

From what you posted it seems that GDB is looking for the source file in your downloads directory (which makes sense after all, I guess), but the SegFault seems due to invalid font pointer...which in turn may be caused by a failed load operation.

Someone will point out that you should always check return values... :P

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eversojk
Member #15,510
February 2014

Thanks! I thought I had checked it but obviously I didn't, works fine now!

Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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That no such file or directory message is just gdb looking for the source so it can show the source at the line it crashed at. It's not a fatal error or related to the crash at all.

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Edgar Reynaldo
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May 2007
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