Post by bitprobe in macOS — Game launches and immediately closes (no screen visible, just immediately crashes)

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Trying to run the jar directly also crashes, but with a different error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

at org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwCreateWindow(GLFW.java:1647)
 at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.createGlfwWindow(Lwjgl3Application.java:442)
 at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.createWindow(Lwjgl3Application.java:391)
 at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.createWindow(Lwjgl3Application.java:379)
 at com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.<init>(Lwjgl3Application.java:108)
 at com.cairn4.moonbase.desktop.DesktopLauncher.main(DesktopLauncher.java:41)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: GLFW windows may only be created on the main thread and that thread must be the first thread in the process. Please run the JVM with -XstartOnFirstThread. For offscreen rendering, make sure another window toolkit (e.g. AWT or JavaFX) is initialized before GLFW.
 at org.lwjgl.glfw.EventLoop$OffScreen.<clinit>(EventLoop.java:37)
 ... 6 more
AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed

Cairn46 years ago

Thanks for posting this, think I'm starting to finally get some leads on why the macOS version is being so difficult...

Going to try out a few things over the weekend to see if I can get it launching more reliably.

Since it looks like you at least have a version of Java installed on your machine, see if running this from the Terminal works...

> java -XstartOnFirstThread -jar desktop-1.0.jar

(Assuming that you have the Terminal navigated to the same folder as the jar file)

There might also still be an issue where I'm using a AWT/Swing popup to show crash error messages... but worth trying.

bitprobe6 years ago

I get the following error:

java(3906,0x7fff99cea340) malloc: *** error for object 0x123b69140: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
[1]    3906 abort      java -XstartOnFirstThread -jar desktop-1.0.jar

Here's the Java version on my machine

java version "1.8.0_101"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_101-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.101-b13, mixed mode)

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