Exult Ultima VII player (old BeOS app) crash due midi music

[Giova84]

hrev51307 gcc2 hybrid.

I installed, on Haiku, Exult (to play Ultima VII); I also had it on BeOS. However, after setting everything, I've found that whenever I select the version to play (eg Serpent Isle or Blackgate) the app will crash. I've found that if in the config file i set

  <midi>
   <enabled>
   no
   </enabled>

The game works (more or less) fine. So I have to disable midi music to properly play. I said that " works more or less fine" because, however, despite the fact that is playable if I disable midi, when I want to quit the game, Exult will hang and I have to kill it, eg from the Terminal.

I attach the debug report file, the one which I saved when the game crashed, due midi music.

[pulkomandy]

The crash happens in SDL_SetColors which does not look like it is MIDI related.

Does the game bundle its own version of libSDL? If so, is it possible to replace it with links to the current version?

It could be a bug in libSDL that was already fixed since then.

Also, Exult is open source (​http://exult.sourceforge.net/) so possibly we could just re-port it and see if that is enough to fix the problems?

[Giova84]

The game was bundled with an old version of libSDL.so; now I replaced this library with a link to the current version of libSDL.so of Haiku: the game still crash if the midi in the exult.cfg is enabled, however with the link to the current libSDL.so no longer hangs when I quit the game.

[begasus]

I don't have the older BeOS game so I can't check that, "found" an abondanware zip that I could check, with the latest release for exult I'm able to play the game without crashing (PR for that is up at haikuports).

[begasus]

Switching midi output (default/fluidsynth/timidity/soundbanks) doesn't seem to crash also, so I guess this can be closed?