Cocos2d-x 2.x on Mac OSX El Capitan

cocos2d-x
#1

Hi All. I’ve just upgraded one of my macs to El Capitan to see if my game still works…it doesn’t. It crashed immediately after starting. Running it in the debugger (of XCode 6 not 7 yet) I see it crashes at:

void CCConfiguration::gatherGPUInfo()
{
	m_pValueDict->setObject( CCString::create( (const char*)glGetString(GL_VENDOR)), "gl.vendor");   <=
....
}

Application Specific Information:
terminating with uncaught exception of type std::logic_error: basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid
abort() called

Commenting the lines results in a assert error : CCAssert(m_uProgram != 0, “Cannot link invalid program”);

Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? Will this problem also occur with Cocos2d-x 3.7 ?

Any help or tips would be welcome!

Mysterious Crash on Mac OS X (v2.2.6)
#2

so, I upgraded to the latest El Capitan but I haven’t yet tried to compile a clean cocos2d-x. Let me see if I can get to this today and post results.

#3

A clean Cocos2d-x 3.7 I just tried with Xcode 6 on El Capitan…it works… Now to find out why version 2.x fails (converting the project would take too much time).

#4

Have you found a solution for this? I’m in the same boat.

#5

If anyone is still stuck on this, I just fixed it in my game by calling this line: [glView lockOpenGLContext]; prior to calling cocos2d::CCApplication::sharedApplication()->run();

If anyone has any comment on this solution - let me know.

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#6

I’m in same boat. All of my games on the Mac App Store now crash and were based on v2.x of cocos. It will be a real pain to update all our games. Do we know what the real issue is?

#7

Sounds like an issue. I’ll upgrade one of my macs to El Capitan and see what I can find. I also have all my games in v2 and won’t be upgrading so a solution must be found =)

#8

That fixed it for me. Thank you. Any idea why this fix works?

#9

I’m in the same boat.

I fixed in another way: calling [glView prepareOpenGL]; prior to calling cocos2d::CCApplication::sharedApplication()->run();
I guessed that the requirements are making context for OpenGL. Actually both lockOpenGLContext and prepareOpenGL called makeCurrentContext.

#10

Thanks for sharing your sollution.