Using Torcs Championship Server in text mode

Tambet Matiisen <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Apr 2016 12:03:30 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.games.torcs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi everyone!

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'll do it anyway 
:). I'm trying to run Torcs 1.3.4 with Championship Server patch in text 
mode. The manual (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.1672v2.pdf) suggests 
something like this:

torcs -r ~/.torcs/config/raceman/quickrace.xml

It all appears to run fine, until I ask for restart, in which case it 
crashes with following error:

Waiting for request on port 3001
******* RESTARTING *****
freeglut  ERROR:  Function <glutKeyboardFunc> called without first 
calling 'glutInit'.

It can be easily reproduced with the client coming with SCR patch - from 
scr-client-app folder run

./client maxSteps:100

I guess the restarting code assumes graphical mode, which is weird, 
because one would think that restarting would be especially useful in 
text mode. Do you think it would be easy to fix? I have some rusty 
knowledge of C/C++, but the codebase it too big to grasp in short time.

Thanks!
Tambet


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