build-16 Failed to initialize SDL, no valid video driver

[Nathan Peters]

I get the following output after compiling build-16 on freeBSD 8.2-RELEASE.

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%./widelands
Set home directory: /home/tom/.widelands
No version file found
Adding directory:./.
Version file found with id "build-16" (real "build-16" )
No version file found
Adding directory:/usr/share/games/widelands
Adding directory:.
Version file found with id "build-16" (real "build-16" )
No version file found
Widelands executable directory:
localedir: locale
selected language: (system language)
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=&

Caught exception (of type '11_wexception') in outermost handler!
The exception said: [/usr/home/tom/builds/widelands-build16-src/src/wlapplication.cc:999] Failed to initialize SDL, no valid video driver:

This should not happen. Please file a bug report on version build-16(Release).
and remember to specify your operating system.

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A workaround is to specify the video driver in the environment, e.g.
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 ./widelands

[Nicolai Hähnle (nha)]

Thank you for the patch, but could you please clean it up so that files from your build do not appear in it?

As for the other problem, that seems like a FreeBSD-specific issue of SDL. What about other games using SDL, do they show the same problem? And if not, can you perhaps try to figure out what they do differently? SDL is supposed to select the video output method automatically.

[Nathan Peters (nathanpeters)]

I tried two other SDL games (all built and tested in the same environment) and they do not have this problem. I'll try to figure out what's different.

The patch for building is fixed.

[Nathan Peters (nathanpeters)]

I think it's completely fixed with this last patch.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Welcome to Launchpad, Nathan. :)

[SirVer (sirver)]

I appled your last patch in r 5914. I assume it contained all the prior patches in a cleaned up manner. Was this correct? I also added your name to the list of developers.

Thanks for contributing!

[SirVer (sirver)]

Released in build17-rc1.