Crash at EnterCriticalSection

[Lundar]

First off great work. I might actually manage to contribute to a D1 project one of these days.

So I managed to compile and link the project. The first time I run it it crashes on startup (probably not that unexpected). I pull out the debugger and find its crashing engine.cpp line 1950. I put in some break points and find that InitializeCriticalSection is not being run for some reason. The struct at engine.cpp:1915 looks like a valid way of initializing the mutex to me, but for whatever reason isn't being run in my setup.

I moved the initialization function out of the struct and call it from start of WinMain. (Note there is already a proto for the function in engine.h). The game now starts. I start a new single player game, and another crash. This time another EnterCriticalSection but in dx.cpp. Same issue. For now I'm going to consolidate all the pre-main init functions, but do you guys have any insight on why this might be? Could it be being optimized out?

Im using Win7, Msys i686-w64-mingw32 (5.3.0 Rev2) to compile.

[ghost]

It's definitely compiler related, since everything is executing fine on Mingw32/VC++. Either way, I don't think structs are the proper way to initialize them. As per the TODO:
3000 - Critical sections should be constructors using CCritSect
The PSX symbol file defines this as follows:
static CCritSect sgMemCrit;
Which is then used as a constructor in the class. This is likely the same problem I was having with newer versions of Visual Studio. Should get fixed as #13 develops.

Edit: I'm also using Win7 x64