On 08/13/2009 09:54 PM, BugByteMan wrote:

Hello,

When I build gimp (mingw/windows XP) with gtk+> 2.17.2 the application crashes as soon as I move my mouse over either the toolbox or image window. This happens with both the stable (2.6.6 tarball) and git source. I have not been successful in identifying the source of the crash in gdb.

Has anybody successfully built this combination using mingw/windows environment?

Hi,

I would personally recomend Fedora for building GIMP for Windows. Building GIMP for Windows on Windows was hell last time I tried, building GIMP for Windows on Fedora using the quite new Fedora mingw toolchain is super-easy. I was able to build both git master and gimp-2-6 of GIMP without much trouble.

You can run your build result in Wine. To get stack-traces, install DrMingw, works perfect both in Wine and on real Windows.

If you are using unstable development releases it is a good idea to keep up to date with the releases. No one will pay much attention to crashes reported using old development releases.

Best regards, Martin

Martin Nordholts wrote:

On 08/13/2009 09:54 PM, BugByteMan wrote:

Hello,

When I build gimp (mingw/windows XP) with gtk+> 2.17.2 the application crashes as soon as I move my mouse over either the toolbox or image window. This happens with both the stable (2.6.6 tarball) and git source. I have not been successful in identifying the source of the crash in gdb.

Has anybody successfully built this combination using mingw/windows environment?

Hi,

I would personally recomend Fedora for building GIMP for Windows. Building GIMP for Windows on Windows was hell last time I tried, building GIMP for Windows on Fedora using the quite new Fedora mingw toolchain is super-easy. I was able to build both git master and gimp-2-6 of GIMP without much trouble.

You can run your build result in Wine. To get stack-traces, install DrMingw, works perfect both in Wine and on real Windows.

If you are using unstable development releases it is a good idea to keep up to date with the releases. No one will pay much attention to crashes reported using old development releases.

Best regards, Martin

Hi,

I have been building GIMP and all of the dependent gnome libraries from their respective repositories (previously svn, now git) at least once a week without any issues for over a year. I believe my development environment is stable.

I know for sure that the problem I am experiencing is a result of changes from gtk+ 2.17.2 to 2.17.3. Unfortunately I do not have it isolated to a particular commit.

BugByteMan

On 08/14/2009 02:26 AM, Bug ByteMan wrote:

I know for sure that the problem I am experiencing is a result of changes from gtk+ 2.17.2 to 2.17.3. Unfortunately I do not have it isolated to a particular commit.

Between 2.17.2 and 2.17.3 the client-side-window branch was merged to master. What you see is very likely due to this. There have been tons of fixes for this, so you really should run the latest GTK+ code.

/ Martin

Between 2.17.2 and 2.17.3 the client-side-window branch was merged to master. What you see is very likely due to this.

FWIW, not even gtk-demo built from git master head of GTK+ runs properly on Windows at this time. I don't see any crash, though, just screen updating failures (blank areas that shouldn't be). I haven't build GIMP master head in a while, will try to do that today.

--tml