[SOLVED] SFML window not showing

[like80ninjas]

I re-edited this to appeal to people who need help with the issue, or are google searching as it was very hard to figure out.
Apparently there are issues with SFML right now with certain new graphics card drivers on both Radeon and Nvidia cards.
This issue is fixed by switching to the statically linked version of the library, rather than using the dynamic version.
I don't know the ups and downs of static/dynamic linking, but my window shows up fine now when compiling statically.

[X Abstract X]

That code runs perfectly fine for me :S

[like80ninjas]

Yeah, i've tried to look this up and only found one thread in a random forum where someone had a similar issue, but the people in the thread wrote it off as "64bit windows 7"'s fault.

I don't have windows seven, nor is my pc 64bit. 32 bit vista.

I also heard while searching that it could be an issue with VC2010, but I tried 2008 and I get the same issue. I've tried making new projects as well. It all compiles and runs but all that comes up is a blank console window, that's it.

[X Abstract X]

Well, I'm running win7 64-bit so that's not an issue. You said:

Even if I add cout before the SFML stuff it just opens a blank console window and hangs there.

Does the program exit successfully if you immediately return from your main function before doing anything?

[like80ninjas]

Well it doesn't exit on it's own. With the code I posted, no keys will work (escape should close it) but when you 'x' out the console window it hangs for maybe 10 seconds(looks like it freezes) and then returns 0 (success).

[short]

I re-edited this to appeal to people who need help with the issue, or are google searching as it was very hard to figure out.
Apparently there are issues with SFML right now with certain new graphics card drivers on both Radeon and Nvidia cards.
This issue is fixed by switching to the statically linked version of the library, rather than using the dynamic version.
I don't know the ups and downs of static/dynamic linking, but my window shows up fine now when compiling statically.

http://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/a1 ... libraries/