Segfault when using Festival library from XS

raf has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, i'm getting into perl and xs, little example work fine, what i'm trying to do is use the festival api in perl, but the program go in segmentation fault every time i run it. Here follow some code, sure someone else can find some mistake that i didn't see :) The xs file...

......
#include <festival/festival.h>

MODULE = festival_test          PACKAGE = festival_test

void
initialize(load_init_file,heap_size)
                int load_init_file
                int heap_size
        CODE:
                festival_initialize(load_init_file,heap_size);
.......
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The Makefile.PL

$CC='g++';
WriteMakefile(
    NAME              => 'festival_test',
    VERSION_FROM      => 'lib/festival_test.pm', # finds $VERSION
    PREREQ_PM         => {}, 
    ($] >= 5.005 ?     
      (ABSTRACT_FROM  => 'lib/festival_test.pm',
       AUTHOR         => 'A. U. Thor <spike@(none)>') : ()),
    LIBS              => ['-L/usr/lib -lFestival -lestools -lestbase -
+leststring -lncurses '],
    DEFINE            => '',
    INC               => '-I. -I/usr/include/speech-tools/',
    'CC'              => $CC,
    'LD'              => '$(CC)',
);
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Two line of perl to use this...

use ExtUtils::testlib;
use festival_test;

print "\nWrite something you want to be read from me: ";
$txt=<>;
festival_test::initialize(1,210000);
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The segmentation fault come on the initialize call, using perl -d, it just freeze. Suggestions, corrections?, thanks

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Re: Segfault when using Festival library from XS by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2008 at 10:31 UTC
use Festival::Client::Async via Speech::Synthesis :) Write a simple C program that works before you involve XS (or Inline::C)	[reply]
Re^2: Segfault when using Festival library from XS by raf (Novice) on Jul 21, 2008 at 13:18 UTC
if i understand you say to test the library first, right? I' ve already written a simple c++ class for use the library, a TTS.h, TTS.cpp and a main.c file in which i create a TTS object and call the 'speak' method, i got no problem, it work fine. I've written a little Makefile to simplify the compilation #Makefile for TTS VERSION = 0.1 CC = g++ ISEARCHDIR = -I/usr/include/speech-tools/ -I /usr/include/ LSEARCHDIR = -L. -L/usr/lib/ OPTIMIZE = -O3 -s -fomit-frame-pointer CFLAGS = $(DEFINES) $(OPTIMIZE) LFLAGS = -lFestival -lestools -lestbase -leststring -lncurses PROGS = FestivalExposure PROGS_O = TTS.o OBJ_SO = TTS.so all : objs progs progs : $(CC) main.c $(PROGS_O) $(LSEARCHDIR) $(LFLAGS) -o $(PROGS) objs : $(CC) TTS.cpp $(ISEARCHDIR) -c sobjs : $(CC) TTS.cpp $(ISEARCHDIR) $(LSEARCHDIR) $(LFLAGS) --shared - +o $(OBJ_SO) provaOBJ : $(CC) TTS.cpp $(ISEARCHDIR) $(LSEARCHDIR) $(LFLAGS) -o $(PROGS +_O) clean : cleanbin rm -f .o ~ cleanbin : rm -f $(PROGS) [download] Tonight i'll try xs with the TTS class, writing the typemap, etc... P.S.: sorry the my english	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Segfault when using Festival library from XS by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2008 at 10:51 UTC
Maybe add `CODE: warn("Cheese file(%s) size(%s)", load_init_file, heap_size); festival_initialize(load_init_file,heap_size);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Segfault when using Festival library from XS by raf (Novice) on Jul 22, 2008 at 08:03 UTC
nothing to do with the add, but thanks or the suggestion. I've done another test too, with a simple c++ class that wrap the festival API, same behavior, it give up with a segmentation fault. I'm starting to think that the problem is not my xs code, i got segmentation fault even with the Speech::eSpeak module. I'll investigate that.	[reply]