[ODE] friction + collision problem

[John Miles]

I seem to recall this being a symptom of the flaky DLL linkage convention
used by the standard ODE Win32 build.  Check the values of the global
variables you're importing from the ODE library; I'll bet that you're using
a local, uninitialized copy of dInfinity somewhere that's leading to the
bug.

You might try the ready-made .DLL build at
http://thegleam.com/ode39/ode39_win32.zip and see if it makes a difference.

-- jm

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> Hi, I've already sent this question in another message, but I resend it
> with a proper subject ;)
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> My problem is the following one:  If I set friction "mu = dInfinity",
> everything works fine. But if I set friction = 0 or 1 (or any other
> small constant), two of the boxes of my simulation enter one inside of
> the other (while ODE gives messages: "LCP internal error, s <= 0
> (s=0.0000)"), and suddently they collide with such a strength (since
> they are one inside the other), that both boxes run away of my simuation
> field.
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