Unable to trace pbrt in Debug mode

[Luca Bicego]

Hi,

i'm new on PBRT but i would like to understand how it works. I bought the book 'Physically Based Rendering' and then i downloaded the source code of pbrt from a git repository.

Using Visual Sutio 2017 i was able to compile all the projects of pbrt.

If i run 

pbrt killeroo-simple.pbrt 

from a consolle everything goes well and after a while a get killeroo-simple.exr

I have some problems when i try to debug pbrt-exe. If i start to execute pbrt in Windows x64 after a while i get an exception due to shlwapi.dll

If i trace the code i discover that i get an exception in the following function (parser.cpp)

template <typename Next, typename Unget>

ParamSet parseParams(Next nextToken, Unget ungetToken, MemoryArena &arena,

                     SpectrumType spectrumType) 

It seams that when the parser tryes to get the integer indices from loopsubdiv from geometry\killeroo.pbrt for some reason in the following loop i have an excepion:

      if (val == "[") 

     {

                while (true)

                {

                   val = nextToken(TokenRequired);

                   if (val == "]") 

      break;

                    addVal(val);

               }

else 

{

                   addVal(val);

                }

               AddParam(ps, item, spectrumType);

               arena.Reset();

    }   

I don't understand why i'm having such a problem.

I'm running the debugger with this args:

--nthreads=1 "C:\Luca Bicego\PBRT\pbrt-v3\scenes\killeroo-simple.pbrt"

Do you have any idea on how i can solve this problem ?

Thanks.

Luca Bicego