Re: static constructor not working with WinMain GUI app
This means the windows sample code that comes with DMD in the samples folder has to be updated, that's where I took the template from. Thanks. On 11/23/10, Simen kjaeraas simen.kja...@gmail.com wrote: Andrej Mitrovic n...@none.none wrote: maintest.def: EXETYPE NT SUBSYSTEM WINDOWS maintest.d: http://pastebin.com/3c4CKDG1 Compiled with DMD 2.050: dmd maintest.d maintest.def The output in the log file is Lenght: 0. The static constructor is never called when using WinMain. But if I use a normal void main() function instead of WinMain, then the static constructor does get called. Here's a working example that tests a GUI dialogbox and outputs Length: 4 in the log file: maintest.def: EXETYPE NT SUBSYSTEM WINDOWS maintest.d: http://pastebin.com/3UDKmxJ1 dmd maintest.d maintest.def This looks like a bug to me.. Looking at http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/windows.html, it seems your template for WinMain is outdated. You should use the template on that page, but beware that exceptionHandler should take a Throwable, not an Exception, like the example says. This error is reported: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5261 -- Simen
Re: static constructor not working with WinMain GUI app
Ok I've filed a bug report and the fix: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5268 On 11/24/10, Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com wrote: This means the windows sample code that comes with DMD in the samples folder has to be updated, that's where I took the template from. Thanks. On 11/23/10, Simen kjaeraas simen.kja...@gmail.com wrote: Andrej Mitrovic n...@none.none wrote: maintest.def: EXETYPE NT SUBSYSTEM WINDOWS maintest.d: http://pastebin.com/3c4CKDG1 Compiled with DMD 2.050: dmd maintest.d maintest.def The output in the log file is Lenght: 0. The static constructor is never called when using WinMain. But if I use a normal void main() function instead of WinMain, then the static constructor does get called. Here's a working example that tests a GUI dialogbox and outputs Length: 4 in the log file: maintest.def: EXETYPE NT SUBSYSTEM WINDOWS maintest.d: http://pastebin.com/3UDKmxJ1 dmd maintest.d maintest.def This looks like a bug to me.. Looking at http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/windows.html, it seems your template for WinMain is outdated. You should use the template on that page, but beware that exceptionHandler should take a Throwable, not an Exception, like the example says. This error is reported: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5261 -- Simen
Re: static constructor not working with WinMain GUI app
Andrej Mitrovic n...@none.none wrote: maintest.def: EXETYPE NT SUBSYSTEM WINDOWS maintest.d: http://pastebin.com/3c4CKDG1 Compiled with DMD 2.050: dmd maintest.d maintest.def The output in the log file is Lenght: 0. The static constructor is never called when using WinMain. But if I use a normal void main() function instead of WinMain, then the static constructor does get called. Here's a working example that tests a GUI dialogbox and outputs Length: 4 in the log file: maintest.def: EXETYPE NT SUBSYSTEM WINDOWS maintest.d: http://pastebin.com/3UDKmxJ1 dmd maintest.d maintest.def This looks like a bug to me.. Looking at http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/windows.html, it seems your template for WinMain is outdated. You should use the template on that page, but beware that exceptionHandler should take a Throwable, not an Exception, like the example says. This error is reported: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5261 -- Simen
Re: static constructor not working with WinMain GUI app
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:23:12 -0500, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: The static constructor is never called when using WinMain. Make sure you use newest DMD, I think in 2.048 or 49 there was bug that module constructors were not called.
