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Finished in 20 days. This might be a personal record for this year. I had occasional days where I could get through 100+ pages. Sadly, these days were spread rather thin, so the words/day average is a much more pitiable number in reality.

Another fine book by Abercrombie though. Best Served Cold is a delightful tale of vengeance and how awful and wasteful it is. And how that doesn't stop people needing it. It's also really good at making you feel sad and upset. Like I said, delightful.

Was going to begin reading The Neutronium Alchemist, but after a trip to Toronto, I now own a copy of House of Leaves. Can't seem to resist reading it right away. I started reading bits of it before I even finished the last book...

Edit: this post isn't a book

Gah. Done, finally. Not a bad trilogy, really, but it has its rough spots. There was one chapter near the end which didn't seem to be revised at all...must've been missed or something?

'twas mostly nice to read, though it's now time to get back to the grim, the dark, the darkest grim of grim dark, Joe Abercrombie, and his world of getting dead for real. Then maybe I'll take a shot at the second book in Peter Hamilton's massive Night's Dawn trilogy, alone about the same length as the trilogy I just finished.

So, all in all, I'll probably get 10 books read this year, considering the pace I've set. Go me.

Okay, I have arrived at a familiar point today. After a little over half a month of fiddling, frustration, an absurdly long power outage, and ceaseless distractions, I can now get a little '@' to move around a terminal. Now with 100% less screen flashing! It feels like I've been on pause for this whole time, but I have admittedly learned a lot of useful stuff since then.

Now then, time to start putting something together...

the program is looking for a file that's not there. Line 196 of src/console.cpp is the location in the code that triggered the problem, not the file that is missing. Compiling and linking went error-free. cpp files are only used in the compiling stage, they're never accessed by a running program.

It's pretty easy to narrow down what the problem probably is. What type of file is accessed during runtime by low-level library functions? DLLs are! Most likely you forgot to put the DLLs in the location you're running tuto.exe from.

Ah, good things to remember. However, I have all the .dll files I can find in the directory containing tuto.exe...I even threw in the gui related ones just in case, to no avail. Have any other ideas?

I was having some weird trouble compiling a program using libtcod via console earlier (from a libtcod C++ roguelike tutorial) and I still can't get that code to work, however, after poking through some other tutorials and the like, I've been able to get another simple program to run both via console and codeblocks. I'm trying to figure out what my problem is with the original code.

This is what it looks like:
#include "libtcod.hpp"
int main() {
    TCODConsole::initRoot(80,50,"libtcod C++ tutorial",false);
    while ( !TCODConsole::isWindowClosed() ) {
        TCODSystem::checkForEvent(TCOD_EVENT_KEY_PRESS,NULL,NULL);
        TCODConsole::root->clear();
        TCODConsole::root->putChar(40,25,'@');
        TCODConsole::flush();
    }
    return 0;
}
As per the tutorial, I'm compiling it with this input:
g++ src/*.cpp -o tuto -Iinclude -Llib -ltcod-mingw -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -Wall        [Someone mind explaining what these commands actually do?]

I've set up the folders include and lib within the program's directory, containing the things they should contain. The code itself is stored as main.cpp within the src folder. Following some advice from the tutorial, I ran the code with a command line debugger (gdp, I think), which gives this output:
(gdb) r
Starting program: C:\Users\Soulusk\gameplace\tuto.exe
[New Thread 8900.0x14c8]
[New Thread 8900.0x888]
24 bits font.
key color : 0 0 0
character for ascii code 255 is colored
Using SDL renderer...

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x65e70d9f in TCODConsole::clear (this=0x1) at src/console.cpp:196
196     src/console.cpp: No such file or directory.
It seems, to my untrained eyes, that it can't find the file console.cpp, which is in libtcod's src folder (I checked). Anyone here actually know what my problem is and perhaps how I might go about solving it?

Well, that was a long break. My programming studies were put on hold during an eight day power outage. The break from everything was nice, but a little disorienting...

On the numerical base topic, a lot of them might not be all that important to know, but I've always found them fun to study. It can be pretty insightful to learn about, in terms of our own base-10 system and the nature of numbers in general. How about decimals and fractions in other bases? Fun!

Well, as far as I can see, I'd like something to give me a good terminal or window, or whatever the proper name is, to run a roguelike in and an acceptable way to receive keyboard input in such a game. From there I'll see how far I can get on my own.

I feel kind of like an idiot now. Didn't realize I'd downloaded Code::Blocks on to this computer already. It also compiles properly.

So yeah, just going to leave that IDE stuff alone for now. Focus on easier to understand (and better documented) things, like pointers and libraries or something. I'll figure out how to do things in CodeBlocks later.