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Bug 3456

Summary: SDL_GameControllerOpen fails if the joystick subsystem isn't initialized
Product: SDL Reporter: Bastien Dejean <nihilhill>
Component: joystickAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: philipp.wiesemann
Version: HG 2.1   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Windows 7   
Attachments: Patch used to trigger the failure

Description Bastien Dejean 2016-10-15 13:08:27 UTC 
Created attachment 2585 [details]
Patch used to trigger the failure

Steps to reproduce:

cd test
patch testgamecontroller.c < ATTACHED_PATCH
make testgamecontroller
./testgamecontroller 0

(Please also note that the error message (IDirectInputDevice8::SetCooperativeLevel() DirectX error 0xx) doesn't provide any error code.)
Comment 1 Philipp Wiesemann 2016-10-16 18:46:02 UTC 
Maybe the fault is in the SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER_WINDOWS section in SDL_InitSubSystem() of "src/SDL.c". Because there only SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK is checked. The flags are adapted for SDL_INIT_GAMECONTROLLER afterwards.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2016-10-18 04:44:51 UTC 
Fixed, thanks!
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/1dfa58e94f88