Trouble with TTFs

This line of code is crashing my game. If I comment it everything else runs smooth, but of course no text is displayed when needed.

Code:

SDL_Surface *linea = NULL;
....
....
int main()
{
linea = TTF_RenderText_Solid( font, "Welcome to my shop we have 6 weapons", textColor );
}

any ideas?

any ideas?

Are you sure the font is valid ?
Also, you are supposed to free the surface after blitting it.

SDL_ttf 2.0.7: TTF_RenderText_Solid

Originally Posted by Spidey

Also, you are supposed to free the surface after blitting it.

Yup

Code:

SDL_FreeSurface(linea);
linea = TTF_RenderText_Solid( font, "Welcome to my shop we have 6 weapons", textColor );

Yes the font is valid and in the same directory as the project. And I already free all the surfaces in the program at the end with a freeallsurfaces(); function.
The program doesn't get that far. Let me post a little more code maybe someone will know the problem then.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <SDL/SDL.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <string>
#include <SDL/SDL_image.h>
#include <SDL/SDL_ttf.h>

SDL_Surface *screen = NULL;
SDL_Surface *background = NULL;
SDL_Surface *character = NULL;
SDL_Surface *town = NULL;
SDL_Surface *weapshoptemp = NULL;
SDL_Surface *rustysword = NULL;
SDL_Surface *bronzesword = NULL;
SDL_Surface *plasmasword = NULL;
SDL_Surface *platinumsword = NULL;
SDL_Surface *silversword = NULL;
SDL_Surface *bdiamondsword = NULL;
SDL_Surface *linea = NULL;
SDL_Color textColor = { 255, 255, 255 };
SDL_Event event;
TTF_Font *font = NULL;

int location =2;

int initsdl()
{
    /* Initialize SDL */
    if (SDL_Init (SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING) == -1)
    {
        return 1;
    }
    

    /* Set 640x480 16-bits video mode */
    screen = SDL_SetVideoMode (640, 480, 16, SDL_SWSURFACE |     
    SDL_DOUBLEBUF);

    if (screen == NULL)
    {
        return 1;
    }
    if( TTF_Init() == -1 )
    {
        return false;    
    }
    SDL_WM_SetCaption ("Starting with physics", NULL);
}

int freesurfaces()
{
    SDL_FreeSurface(background);
    SDL_FreeSurface(screen);
    SDL_FreeSurface(character);
    SDL_FreeSurface(rustysword);
    SDL_FreeSurface(bronzesword);
    SDL_FreeSurface(silversword);
    SDL_FreeSurface(plasmasword);
    SDL_FreeSurface(platinumsword);
    SDL_FreeSurface(bdiamondsword);
    SDL_FreeSurface(linea);
}

void loadimages()
{
     character = loadimage("ani.gif");
     rustysword = loadimage("rustysword.png");
     bronzesword = loadimage("bronzesword.png");
     silversword = loadimage("silversword.png");
     plasmasword = loadimage("plasmasword.png");
     platinumsword = loadimage("platinumsword.png");
     bdiamondsword = loadimage("bluediamondsword.png");
     font = TTF_OpenFont( "achafsex.ttf", 28 );
}

void displayarea()
{
     //1 is town
     if(location == 1)
     {
       background = loadimage("town.png");          
       applysurface(0,0, background, screen, NULL);
       applysurface(x, y, character, screen, &animation[1]);
     }
     else if(location == 2)
     {
       background = loadimage("shop.png");          
       applysurface(0,0, background, screen, NULL);
       applysurface(10,70, rustysword, screen, NULL);
       applysurface(310,70, bronzesword, screen, NULL);
       applysurface(10, 140, silversword, screen, NULL);
       applysurface(310, 140, platinumsword, screen, NULL);
       applysurface(10, 210, bdiamondsword, screen, NULL);
       applysurface(310, 210, plasmasword, screen, NULL);
     }
}

void play()
{
  int MouseCoordX, MouseCoordY;
  displayarea();
  bool quit = false;
  while(quit == false)
  {
    while(SDL_PollEvent(&event))
    {
      displayarea();                          
      if(event.type == SDL_QUIT)
      {
        quit = true;
      }
      else if(location == 1)
      {
        if( event.type == SDL_KEYDOWN )
        {
          switch( event.key.keysym.sym ) 
          { 
            case SDLK_UP: moveup();
            break;  
            case SDLK_LEFT: moveleft(); 
            break; 
            case SDLK_RIGHT: moveright();
            break;
            case SDLK_DOWN: movedown(); 
          } 
        }
      }
      else if(location == 2)
      {
         if(event.type == SDL_MOUSEBUTTONDOWN)
         {
           if(event.button.button == SDL_BUTTON_LEFT)
           {
             MouseCoordX = event.button.x;
             MouseCoordY = event.button.y;
             SDL_FreeSurface(linea);
             //if I comment the following line the program runs else it stops and     
             does not even apply the line applysurface that follows it.
             linea = TTF_RenderText_Solid( font, "Welcome to my shop we have 6             weapons", textColor );
             applysurface(MouseCoordX, MouseCoordY, linea, screen, NULL);
           }
         }
      }     
      SDL_Flip(screen);
    }
  }  
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  initsdl();
  loadimages(); 
  play();
  freesurfaces();
  return 0;
}

sorry I know its long, but it was the shortest version of the real code I could copy paste and still give you an idea of whats goin on

UPDATE: I made the smallest program possible to print ttfs and it still crashed at the same line of code. I found this error message in a notepad file outside the program. Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)