Re: [vos-d] struggling with Windows...

2005-08-15 Thread res
On 15.08.2005 18:12, Peter Amstutz wrote: > SIGTRAP: > Invalid Address specified to RtlFreeHeap( XX, XX ) > > I thought maybe it was the multiple-heaps issue with Windows DLLs, > except that a) I can continue and it doesn't crash and b) I'm pretty > sure mingw compiles everything against t

Re: [vos-d] struggling with Windows...

2005-08-15 Thread Hugh Perkins
> It's almost like Microsoft is trying to discourage distributed development (typical of free software) Yeah, it sucks, but hey theres a lot of people out there using Windows, and thats not going to change overnight. > Hi Hugh, haven't heard from you in a while.  Last I heard you had been sucked

Re: [vos-d] struggling with Windows...

2005-08-15 Thread Peter Amstutz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Hugh, haven't heard from you in a while. Last I heard you had been sucked into the World of Warcraft? :-) On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Hugh Perkins wrote: windebug works ok. Its free, and it basically does everything that the full Visual Studio de

Re: [vos-d] struggling with Windows...

2005-08-15 Thread Hugh Perkins
msvcrt.dll is the old pre-.net dll, msvcr71.dll is the .net dll The import libraries have teh same name in each case (msvcrt.lib, msvcprt.lib) but point towards a differently named dll, one of those above, depending on the compiler version.On 8/15/05, Peter Amstutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -

Re: [vos-d] struggling with Windows...

2005-08-15 Thread Peter Amstutz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, res wrote: Don't know if you have tried yet, but check out gdb-6.3 (from mingw.org, a bit down the downloads list). I had to do some (little) debugging recently, and while gdb-5.something failed to get CS plugin debug info, 6.3

Re: [vos-d] struggling with Windows...

2005-08-14 Thread Hugh Perkins
windebug works ok. Its free, and it basically does everything that the full Visual Studio debugger does. Obviously it only works with msvc-compiled objects. > The VC 2003 Toolkit is limited in other regards, too. For example, it > doesn't get shipped with the libraries to link with the DLL versi

Re: [vos-d] struggling with Windows...

2005-08-14 Thread res
On 14.08.2005 09:59, Peter Amstutz wrote: > The compiler situation on Windows is being a real pain in the ass. > Currently I am using the MinGW/Msys toolchain, and it works well enough. > However, the debugger support is terrible -- gdb is basically useless, > which is making it quite a bit harder

[vos-d] struggling with Windows...

2005-08-14 Thread Peter Amstutz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Trying to get a working Windows version compiled. Right now, everything builds and runs, but dies with some kind of error right after connecting to and downloading a remote site. The compiler situation on Windows is being a real pain in the ass.