GlGenTextures keeps returing 0's

Question

I'm trying to generate textures like so:

#define checkImageWidth 64
#define checkImageHeight 64
static GLubyte checkImage[checkImageHeight][checkImageWidth][4];
static GLubyte otherImage[checkImageHeight][checkImageWidth][4];

static GLuint texName[2];

void makeCheckImages(void)
{
    int i, j, c;

    for (i = 0; i < checkImageHeight; i++) {
        for (j = 0; j < checkImageWidth; j++) {
            c = ((((i&0x8)==0)^((j&0x8))==0))*255;
            checkImage[i][j][0] = (GLubyte) c;
            checkImage[i][j][1] = (GLubyte) c;
            checkImage[i][j][2] = (GLubyte) c;
            checkImage[i][j][3] = (GLubyte) 255;
            c = ((((i&0x10)==0)^((j&0x10))==0))*255;
            otherImage[i][j][0] = (GLubyte) c;
            otherImage[i][j][1] = (GLubyte) 0;
            otherImage[i][j][2] = (GLubyte) 0;
            otherImage[i][j][3] = (GLubyte) 255;
        }
    }
}
void init(void)
{    
    glClearColor (1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
    glShadeModel(GL_FLAT);
    glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);

    makeCheckImages();
    glPixelStorei(GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, 1);

    glGenTextures(2, texName);
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texName[0]);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,
        GL_NEAREST);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,
        GL_NEAREST);
    glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, checkImageWidth,
        checkImageHeight, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE,
        checkImage);

    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texName[1]);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,
        GL_NEAREST);
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,
        GL_NEAREST);
    glTexEnvf(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_DECAL);   
    glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, checkImageWidth, 
        checkImageHeight, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, 
        otherImage);
    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

    engineGL.current.tex = texName[1];
}

But when I check the values of texName[0] and [1] they are both 0, I do not understand why, what am I doing wrong. Thanks.

Answer 1

You probably are calling glGenTextures before creating the OpenGL context, and that will generate a GL error. Don't try to create textures before you've initialized OpenGL.