From d1dec0f6f437cf5342a8514f23741da9ded95485 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: quarrel07 <quarrel-07atolls@icloud.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:41:26 -0700
Subject: Fix crash when bailing out of first-run setup before the game inits
 (#707)

InitModsSystem() runs before the game world is set up. Its bail-out paths (no
O2R + user declines generation, missing mods.toml, cyclic/outdated mod deps,
and GenAssetFile's no-ROM / unsupported-ROM cases) call exit(), which runs the
global `static World sWorldInstance` destructor -> World::CleanWorld() ->
dereferences Sky::Instance and other singletons that are still null this early,
segfaulting. The most visible case: declining the first-run "Generate one now?"
prompt pops a crash report instead of quitting cleanly.

Use _Exit() on these pre-initialization bail-outs so no static destructors run.

Co-authored-by: quarrel07 <paeans-toggle-2e@icloud.com>
Co-authored-by: coco875 <59367621+coco875@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/engine/mods/ModManager.cpp | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/engine/mods/ModManager.cpp')

diff --git a/src/engine/mods/ModManager.cpp b/src/engine/mods/ModManager.cpp
index 137fb9743..ff2a2b3ef 100644
--- a/src/engine/mods/ModManager.cpp
+++ b/src/engine/mods/ModManager.cpp
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include "port/Engine.h"
 #include "semver.hpp"
 #include "utils/StringHelper.h"
+#include <cstdlib>
 #include <memory>
 #include <optional>
 #include <string>
@@ -51,14 +52,19 @@ void UnloadMods() {
     Mods.clear();
 }
 
+// These bail-outs all run during InitModsSystem(), i.e. before the game world is set up.
+// Use _Exit instead of exit so the global `static World sWorldInstance` destructor does not
+// run: its CleanWorld() dereferences Sky::Instance and other singletons that are still null
+// at this point, which segfaults — a crash report on what should be a clean quit (e.g. when
+// the user declines the first-run "Generate one now?" prompt).
 void GenerateAssetsMods() {
     if (GameEngine::ShowYesNoBox("No O2R Files", "No O2R files found. Generate one now?") == IDYES) {
         if (!GameEngine::GenAssetFile()) {
             GameEngine::ShowMessage("Error", "An error occured, no O2R file was generated.\n\nExiting...");
-            exit(1);
+            _Exit(1);
         }
     } else {
-        exit(1);
+        _Exit(1);
     }
 }
 
@@ -241,7 +247,7 @@ void FindAndLoadMods() {
                                     " is missing a mods.toml file. The Mod are likely incompatible.\n\n"
                                     "Do you want to continue loading the mods?";
             if (GameEngine::ShowYesNoBox("Missing mods.toml", msg.c_str()) == IDNO) {
-                exit(1);
+                _Exit(1);
             }
             metadata.name = std::filesystem::path(path).stem().string();
             semver::parse("0.0.0", metadata.version);
@@ -260,7 +266,7 @@ void DetectCyclicDependencies() {
         }
         msg += "\nPlease resolve these cyclic dependencies before continuing.\n";
         GameEngine::ShowMessage("Cyclic Dependency Issues", msg.c_str());
-        exit(1);
+        _Exit(1);
     }
 }
 
@@ -281,7 +287,7 @@ void DetectOutdatedDependencies() {
     if (exitDueToErrors) {
         allDepIssues += "\nPlease resolve these dependency issues before continuing.\n";
         GameEngine::ShowMessage("Dependency Issues", allDepIssues.c_str());
-        exit(1);
+        _Exit(1);
     }
 }
 
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