Building freezing on Windows build with embedded font

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When building on Windows 10 64-bit. for target windows it is freezing at step;
“Running command: haxe…release.hxml -D no_console”
it gives me no errors. but seemingly stuck there forever. (Seemingly, i only let it build for a hour or so).

Seems to be a problem for several projects. Possible problem with specfic ttf file?
is there more debugging information beside -verbose tag on build?

Chunkfive.csv (26.7 KB)

rename Chunkfive.csv to Chunkfive.ttf to get the file

using following libraries:
actuate: [1.8.7]
box2d: [1.2.3]
HaxePunk-UI: latest from git
HaxePunk: latest from git
HaxePunkTmx: latest from git
hxcpp: [3.4.43]
layout: [1.2.1]
lime-samples: [3.4.0]
lime: [3.5.2]
openfl-samples: [4.5.1]
openfl: [4.5.2]
polygonal-core: [1.0.4]
polygonal-ds: [2.0.0-rc.1]
polygonal-gl: [1.0.4]
polygonal-motor: [0.2.0]
polygonal-printf: [1.0.2-beta]
polygonal-ui: [1.0.2]
tmx: [0.2.0]

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Are you using Haxe development builds?

We saw a similar issue, it was resolved here https://github.com/openfl/lime/commit/1e7c544dc71ae14a785cdcd802b1366334ee84db

I don’t think it’s simple to take this commit in isolation, though (because we may have had a few patch commit afterwards to resolve compile issues)

We hope to get a release out again soon

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pointing to latest gives the error. “Error: Buffer.add: cannot grow buffer”

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Yes, 4.5.2 build on Windows freezes with embedded fonts, I’ve switched to dev builds and it solves this issue.
However; in the dev builds, certain fonts from an swf will cause openfl to crash if set as static. Hope for a fix on this!

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I haven’t heard of this before. Is there any way that I could get a project that reproduces the issue?

Have you run openfl rebuild tools, to rebuild the SWF embedding tools (in addition to Lime’s tools) on the dev build?

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Yes i’ve run openfl rebuild tools ..Problem is also apparent in 4.5.2 i think.

It happens only with certain fonts, not really sure why.

I’v made an example project. Its the NyanCat project, and have changed nothing more than adding a static text in the swf. This crashes always for me. If i change the text to dynamic it runs fine. Hope you can reproduce the error.

Windows 10, c++ target, openfl/lime dev builds, hxcpp 3.4.43, Haxe 3.4 rc2

Here is the c++ call stack from debugging:

NyanCat.exe!Dynamic::Dynamic(const Dynamic & inRHS) Line 36 C++
NyanCat.exe!Array_obj::__get(int inIndex) Line 442 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::_internal::symbols::StaticTextSymbol_obj::_hx___createObject(hx::ObjectPtropenfl::_internal::swf::SWFLite_obj swf) Line 133 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::display::MovieClip_obj::_hx___renderFrame(int index) Line 597 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::display::MovieClip_obj::_hx___updateFrame() Line 733 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::display::MovieClip_obj::_hx___fromSymbol(hx::ObjectPtropenfl::_internal::swf::SWFLite_obj swf, hx::ObjectPtropenfl::_internal::symbols::SpriteSymbol_obj symbol) Line 372 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::display::MovieClip_obj::__construct() Line 140 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::display::MovieClip_obj::__alloc(hx::ImmixAllocator * _hx_ctx) Line 811 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::_internal::symbols::SpriteSymbol_obj::_hx___createObject(hx::ObjectPtropenfl::_internal::swf::SWFLite_obj swf) Line 90 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::_internal::swf::SWFLite_obj::createMovieClip(String __o_className) Line 142 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::_internal::swf::SWFLiteLibrary_obj::getMovieClip(String id) Line 213 C++
NyanCat.exe!openfl::Assets_obj::getMovieClip(String id) Line 333 C++
NyanCat.exe!Main_obj::__construct() Line 41 C++
NyanCat.exe!DocumentClass_obj::__construct() Line 48 C++

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Thank you so much for the test!

This works on Neko, and with C++ on Haxe 3.2.1, but crashes like you said with my 3.4 development build. I’ve opened an issue