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Hey,
I'm using microsoft visual C++ express 2010 and I'm statically linking my application. I have Multi-threaded (/MT) for relase set and Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd) for debug mode.Compiling the release version (in release mode) works fine. Lately I had to debug my application to locate some errors in my application and just then noticed that my release version in debug mode fails. Though everything works fine if I link dynamically.
Here's call stack:

cegui.log:

Hmm so it seems that cegui crashes while debugging release version with static linking in its initialisation but I have no idea why. And after getting the error:

I can press continue in my project's debug options and game runs properly. I suppose I'm doing everything properly there but here's initialisation code:

Seen this hundred times, it's most likely runtime mismatch, Windows is really picky regarding this...

Make sure EVERYTHING links to the right runtime.

thanks a lot for answer!
but hmm actually maybe I'm bad at static linking at all . I've moved my game's exe and necessary data(all compiled in release mode) to a separate folder without dlls. After running it error pops up that CEGUIBase.dll is missing . But I thought I've already linked that statically. Isn't setting Multi-threaded (/MT) for release version enough to statically link application with all dlls it loads?
I'm not quite sure what do you mean by runtime mismatch (becouse of my english). I have just compiled CEGUI to newest version both in release and debug mode and copied necessary dlls (with _d suffix and without it) to my game's folder. But the error still occurs

Do not use static linking unless you have a very solid reason for it. I understand it just before shipping the title but definitely not for development.

There are many additional pitfalls when compared to dynamic linking. If you are unsure how it all works just use dynamic linking, it's definitely less error prone.

I meant the MSVC runtime.

Setting /MT will make it link with static MSVC++ lib compile CEGUI with /MT as well in this case and include the CEGUI libs in your application in linker section (remember the dependencies as well. dependencies/lib/static)

thanks for answers.
Though I still can't manage to link cegui statically. Would anyone be so kind to give me clues step by step what should be done to do it? I compiled whole CEGUI solution with Multi-threaded (/MT) option for both release(creates dlls) and release_static(creates libs) modes. Though I had to ignore additionally libcmt.lib for 3 projects in order to compile them(CEGUIBase CEGUICorona and something else ). Now I have in my project Multi-threaded (/MT) set and these are my additional dependencies: CEGUIBase_Static.lib;CEGUIDirect3D9Renderer_Static.lib;CEGUIExpatParser_Static.lib;CEGUIFalagardWRBase_Static.lib;CEGUISILLYImageCodec_Static.lib;
SILLY.lib. But I get following errors and can't fix them :/.
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Thanks a lot for your current time guys. I really appreciate your help!

edit: hmm while surfing the internet I came across information that I have to set preprocessor macro called CEGUI_STATIC in C++/Preprocessor definitions. So I did and I have now about 100 less errors but still can't fix those:

You didn't include the dependency libs as i said before. (dependencies\lib\static) freetype.lib / pcre.lib / expat.lib / SILLY.lib

yeah I've just added those, I'm really bad at it but thansk to your help I've managed to link it eventually . Thanks a lot. For others the complete list of additional dependencies in microsoft visual c++ is:

and libs coming from dependendencies folder must be from static subfolder of course