CEGUI (Crazy Eddie's GUI) Forums

Hello,

I installed CEGUI using the .deb package distributed with Ubuntu Linux, version Feisty Fawn. Here are its contents:

I installed the Ogre libraries using the apt-get mechanism, and I also have the CEGUIOgreRenderer:
I developed an Ogre app using CEGUI. In the development machine, the code works ok, but when I try to run it in another machine with the above installation, it gives me a segfault after a CEGUI::GenericException. I used gdb to trace where it originated, and it pointed me to here:
The line 85 of CEGUIDynamicModule.cpp has something like this:

So I presume it is trying to load some dynamic library. Does anyone know which library it tries to load? If so, where is this library is specified? Is there a configuration file such a .xsd with this info?

Thanks in advance.

I just found this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cegui-mk2/+bug/93961

It seems that it is a packaging problem with ubuntu .deb files. I installed the dev package (libcegui-mk2-dev) and the exception no longer occurs. Some dynamically libraries (loaded at DynamicModule.cpp:85) are not present in the libcegui-mk2-1 package.

Does anyone know which libraries are dynamicaly loaded when instantiating CEGUISystem ?

Hi,

The libs that get dynamically loaded will depend upon how the system was built. Basically it's possible to specify the default modules to load at configure time.

I think the only one that gets loaded when instantiating CEGUI::System in normal cases is an XML parser. The default for this will depend on the libs available on the build system - since it will not auto-default to a module that is not being built.

The default order of selection as used by the configure script in 0.5.x is: Xerces, Expat, LibXML2, TinyXML.

I guess the CEGUI.log is not created at this stage, so contains nothing useful?

Yeah, unfortunately, the CEGUI.log is not created before the Exception.
These are the files that are present in the libcegui-mk2-1 package:

So, the Xerces and TinyXML parsers are present. It should not give the error. What exactly is the filename that CEGUI tries to load in DynamicModule.cpp ? If it is, for example, /usr/lib/libCEGUIXercesParser.so (without the .0.0.0), the file will not be present.

But, if the development package is installed (libcegui-mk2-dev), it contains these files:

For me, it is clear that is a packaging problem, since the binary package does not have files .so that are links to files .so.0.0.0. I removed the libcegui-mk2-dev package and made the links myself. It worked.

Who maintains the ubuntu deb packages for cegui?

schnorr wrote:For me, it is clear that is a packaging problem, since the binary package does not have files .so that are links to files .so.0.0.0. I removed the libcegui-mk2-dev package and made the links myself. It worked.

Yeah, that sounds about right anyway. We do indeed open the file with the plain .so extension.

schnorr wrote:Who maintains the ubuntu deb packages for cegui?

I'm not certain who it is at he moment. It's none of us lot, anyway