.You are right  about the fragility of this development.
A response to the " segmentation error issue " from one of the developers
Dmitry <di...@mail.ru> was and I quote.
"I cant help here, cause I'm not running windows"
Yet In the download web page Dmitry is given credit for the port toWindows

I understand this is a free platform and that we should expect to get what
we paid for. However this is was promoted in Circuit Cellar in an article
about MPS430 and also at the mikrocontroller web site from which it was
downloaded. The article and the website say  it is windows compatible
Some will always shoot or impune the messenger or grasp at any convenient
reason  for the lack of results. Some will feel that the reporting of a
defect by a user brings with it the obligation for that user to undertake
fixing it. If this is the philosophy of this development group it will have
a chilling effect on the quality of the end product. Perhaps it already has
since the fact is this doesn't at the moment work reliably across Windows.



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