What do you need help with? Version 5

[Meatpuppet]

that was remnants of old code when MenuItem was in Text, thanks though

cleaning code is always good

[editline]3rd February 2013[/editline]

please

[Jookia]

Copy your code base, remove as much as you can without having it stop erroring, then paste what you have left. You should have like one trouble file.

[esalaka]

Or if you're using git, you could [url=http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Debugging-with-Git#Binary-Search]bisect[/url] and see which commit introduced the bug.

But you aren't, are you

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=Asgard;39463472]I've looked through the entire

$ cmake --trace

output, and I am sure everything is found and linked correctly. What is going wrong?

[editline]3rd February 2013[/editline]

objdump just informed me that the architecture of the .so files are exactly the same, so it most likely isn't that either. I'm about ready to kill myself.[/QUOTE]

Use FindSDL, not FindSDL2.

[Meatpuppet]

[QUOTE=esalaka;39465620]Or if you're using git, you could [url=http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Debugging-with-Git#Binary-Search]bisect[/url] and see which commit introduced the bug.

But you aren't, are you[/QUOTE]

[url]https://github.com/Tetramputechture/Yttra[/url]

hasn't been updated in a while because this function has been a bitch to implement

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=Jookia;39465595]Copy your code base, remove as much as you can without having it stop erroring, then paste what you have left. You should have like one trouble file.[/QUOTE]

I don't see how it could be that complex though? It just doesn't see that Text is a type specifier.

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

Text.h also has #include <Source/Menu/MainMenu.h>

So MainMenu.h includes Text.h and Text.h includes MainMenu.h

Is that bad?

[ief014]

[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;39465805]
Text.h also has #include <Source/Menu/MainMenu.h>

So MainMenu.h includes Text.h and Text.h includes MainMenu.h

Is that bad?[/QUOTE]

-snip Whoops, yes it can be-

[cpp]
-- A.hpp
#include "B.hpp"
class A
{
public:
B var;
};

-- B.hpp
#include "A.hpp
class B
{
public:
A var;
};
[/cpp]

Should be something like this

[cpp]
-- A.hpp
class B;
class A
{
public:
B var;
};

-- B.hpp
#include "A.hpp"
class B
{
public:
A var;
};
[/cpp]

[Meatpuppet]

Ok, so that's not the problem. I wonder why it's not detecting Text as a type specifier?

[ief014]

[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;39466040]Ok, so that's not the problem. I wonder why it's not detecting Text as a type specifier?[/QUOTE]

It can be bad, yes. I updated my post.

[mechanarchy]

[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;39466040]Ok, so that's not the problem. I wonder why it's not detecting Text as a type specifier?[/QUOTE]

If you're concerned, use forward declaration.

Put
class Text;
class MenuResult; //or whatever

Before your proper class blocks.

[Meatpuppet]

that didn't fix it :(

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

this seems so simple aaaaa

[mechanarchy]

Commit all your changes to git and just put "BROKEN" at the start of the commit message, or use a branch, so we can see the full code and work out why it's not working for you.

what's the full output from the compiler?

[Meatpuppet]

Full compiler output:

[cpp]Error 1 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'text'
Error 2 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
Error 3 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'Text'
[/cpp]

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

[url]https://github.com/Tetramputechture/Yttra[/url]

[mechanarchy]

[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;39466429]Full compiler output:

[cpp]Error 1 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'text'
Error 2 error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
Error 3 error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'Text'
[/cpp]

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

[url]https://github.com/Tetramputechture/Yttra[/url][/QUOTE]

your compiler doesn't even tell you the files or lines where the errors are coming from?

[Meatpuppet]

the lines are 16 for the first two and 18 for the last

[mechanarchy]

right, and the file in particular is...

[Meatpuppet]

mainmenu.h

[mechanarchy]

You're not actually using the Menu class in Text.h at all. Remove that include.

I suspect your problem is to do with your circular #include . MainMenu.h requires 'Text' to be defined, but if you've #included files in the wrong order then Text will be defined after Menu, which will break compilation.

You can't use a forward-declaration to solve the issue as Text is a straight member of MenuItem (as opposed to a pointer or reference).

Try removing the MainMenu.h #include statement in Text.h and see what happens.

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

I'd suggest you change all of your #pragma once include guards back into #ifndef SOMETHING_UNIQUE guards.

[Meatpuppet]

two more errors arise from doing that

[cpp]Error 4 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: class sf::Font const & __cdecl sf::Text::getFont(void)const " (__imp_?getFont@Text@sf@@QEBAAEBVFont@2@XZ) referenced in function "public: class sf::Font __cdecl Text::getFont(void)" (?getFont@Text@@QEAA?AVFont@sf@@XZ) C:\Facepunch Pacman Project\Faceman\Text.obj Faceman
Error 5 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "private: static class sf::Text Text::text" (?text@Text@@0V1sf@@A) C:\Facepunch Pacman Project\Faceman\Text.obj Faceman
[/cpp]

[mechanarchy]

that's a kinda good sign, it means we've passed compilation and now we're failing to link.

You can fix that second error ("Error 5" in your quote) by putting
sf::Text Text::text;
after #include Text.h in Text.cpp

The first error I'm not so sure about - it looks to me like a problem within SFML. Are you linking to all of the SFML libraries correctly and in the right order?

[Meatpuppet]

ok that fixed the second error... only one more! let me check... I don't see why this would be popping up now as the text class worked before just without the highlighting function

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

I commented out the getFont function, now it compiles, but sadly my highlight outline fucntion is not working

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

and my game states are fucking up. like, what the hell, the escape button is being really fucking weird when i click on start. why can't i get anything to FUCKING WORK

[Jookia]

The compiler is trying to find an instance of the static class 'text' your defined in Text.h. Remove that, and the static methods. Or initialize text.

Edit: Ninja'd.

[Falcqn]

Snip fixed

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

It always seems that as soon as I ask the question the answer dawns upon me.. Not such a bad thing, though it means I end up asking lots of pointless questions :v:

[Asgard]

[QUOTE=Jookia;39465622]Use FindSDL, not FindSDL2.[/QUOTE]

As I said, it was able to find the libraries and include files just fine. Or are you saying I should use 1.2 and not 2.0?

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

Would it matter that the SDL2 include files are in

/usr/include/

and the SDL_TTF include files are in

/usr/local/include/

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

or

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL_ttf.so

and

/usr/lib/libSDL2.so

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=Asgard;39469131]As I said, it was able to find the libraries and include files just fine. Or are you saying I should use 1.2 and not 2.0?

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

Would it matter that the SDL2 include files are in

/usr/include/

and the SDL_TTF include files are in

/usr/local/include/

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

or

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL_ttf.so

and

/usr/lib/libSDL2.so[/QUOTE]

I use SDL 2 + CMake with it installed in /home/jookia/Programming/local. I have to manually specify the libraries so CMake can use them, but it works.

[Gulen]

[QUOTE=Asgard;39469131]As I said, it was able to find the libraries and include files just fine. Or are you saying I should use 1.2 and not 2.0?

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

Would it matter that the SDL2 include files are in

/usr/include/

and the SDL_TTF include files are in

/usr/local/include/

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

or

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL_ttf.so

and

/usr/lib/libSDL2.so[/QUOTE]

Not if you include both directories. Like this:

-I /usr/local/include/ -I /usr/include

[Asgard]

[QUOTE=Jookia;39469260]I use SDL 2 + CMake with it installed in /home/jookia/Programming/local. I have to manually specify the libraries so CMake can use them, but it works.[/QUOTE]

The thing is, that when I message() the variables used to link the libraries and add the include directories, the paths appear just fine. FindSDL2.cmake and FindSDL_TTF.cmake can find them perfectly. I checked the architecture of both SDL2 and the SDL_TTF lib files, and they're both the same.

I'm honestly out of options on what it could be.

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

Could I take a look at your CMakeLists.txt?

[Jookia]

I assume you've compiled + installed + set CMake to use SDL_ttf 2?

[Asgard]

[QUOTE=Gulen;39469281]Not if you include both directories. Like this:

-I /usr/local/include/ -I /usr/include

[/QUOTE]

That'd be if I was typing out my own g++ command, but I'm using a CMake file.

[editline]4th February 2013[/editline]

[QUOTE=Jookia;39469462]I assume you've compiled + installed + set CMake to use SDL_ttf 2?[/QUOTE]

Yes

[SteveS]

[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;39462870]Holy fuck I've got it down to only two errors.

Menu.h

The error is occuring on the line Text text;[/QUOTE]

Why do you have the "public" visibility modifier in the struct? I'm willing to guess that'll cause an issue.

[b]edit:[/b] this maybe useless because i missed a page.

[Jookia]

[QUOTE=Asgard;39469463]Yes[/QUOTE]

Did you specifically set CMake to use the SDL_ttf 2 libraries?