[wxMSW] Samples/Image on Win98 vs WinXP

[Thomas Matthews]

Michael Wetherell wrote:
> On Sunday 20 Aug 2006 05:11, Thomas Matthews wrote:
> 
>>I've built the samples/images and when I run it on my Win98
>>machine at home in gdb I get the following error:
>>$ gdb ./image.exe
>>GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special)
>>Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and
>>you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under
>>certain conditions.
>>Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>>There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
>>details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
>>(gdb) run
>>Starting program:
>>/cygdrive/c/wxwindows/build_debug/samples/image/image.exe Loaded
>>symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/OLEAUT32.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/OLE32.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/SHELL32.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/MSVCRT.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/SHLWAPI.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/COMDLG32.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/USER32.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/GDI32.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/COMCTL32.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygz.dll
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/KERNEL32.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/ADVAPI32.DLL
>>Loaded symbols for /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
>>
>>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>0xbffa0938 in WaitForMultipleObjectsEx ()
>>    from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/KERNEL32.DLL
>>(gdb) bt
>>#0  0xbffa0938 in WaitForMultipleObjectsEx ()
>>    from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/KERNEL32.DLL
>>#1  0x83d6f038 in ?? ()
>>#2  0xbffa1d04 in KERNEL32!GetCPInfoExA ()
>>    from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/KERNEL32.DLL
>>#3  0xbff958f8 in KERNEL32!GlobalFix ()
>>    from /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM/KERNEL32.DLL
>>#4  0x00000000 in ?? ()
>>
>>
>>I've built this on my WinXP machine at work with no problems.
>>
>>My Win98 machine, using Cygwin:
>>wxMSW-2.6.3
>>   ./configure --with-msw --with-odbc --enable-debug
>>               --enable-debug_gdb --disable-shared
>>               --disable-precomp-headers
>>g++ 3.4.4
>>gdb 6.5.50.2006
>>cygwin 1.5.21.
>>
>>When I run the program from Cygwin, I get error windows
>>stating "This program has performed an illegal operation
>>and will be shutdown."
>>
>>I've re-installed Cygwin twice and rebuilt wxWidgets 3 times.
>>
>>Is this Cygwin or wxWidgets?
> 
> 
> It sounds a lot like a problem I was having a couple of days ago. I was 
> trying to build wxGTK and programs would compile but wouldn't run, they 
> crashed before main.
> 
> The problem turned out to be that the current binutils package  
> (20060709-1) is broken. The previous package (20050610-1) is still 
> available, and downgrading to that fixed the problem. It affects other 
> C++ projects too:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00413.html
> 
> HTH,
> Mike

Thanks for the tip.
I just tried it and stlill I get the same errors.

Anybody have any debugging suggestions?


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