No Trace (nor console window even) in Windows (Debug) build

#1

I have the HTML version of my OpenGLView app working (with tracing), but the windows build simply displays an empty window. There is also no console window (presumably due to no_console=1 in the auto generated options.txt file).

I’ve followed the advice in this article:
http://www.openfl.org/archive/community/general-discussion/hxlibc-debugging/re-hxlibc-debugging/
and the app compiled and ran, but once again a blank window and no trace to console.

How can I debug this? Just viewing traces should be enough.

Many thanks, Jake

#2

You can cd to the bin folder and run it by typing the name of the exe. Any stdout or errs will be redirected as normal, including traces. That’s what I do.

Alternatively, you can just do openfl test windows and it will open as soon as it’s built, and the behaviour will be exactly the same.

#3

openfl run windows will do the same thing with less effort on your part.

#4

My bad, I had the line:

static inline function main() { }

in my Main class. This caused no issues in HTML5, but somehow short circuited the loading of the class in Windows build. Crisis averted.

#5

I’m surprised it worked in HTML5.

OpenFL specifically looks for a function named “main”, and if it finds one, it calls that function instead of creating an instance.

#6

in HTML5 it appears that first main() is called, then new().