Re: Glib assertion failed messages

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 16:24 +0200, Joao Moreira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a very simple program that uses glib (indirectly). Actually I only define
> a GError variable. I'm getting the following messages when I run it :
> 
> (process:3085): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2240: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
> (process:3085): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
> 
> Although it says CRITICAL, the program does seem to run... what is wrong here ?

you should read the error message: it tells you what failed.

anyway, you are trying to use the GLib type system without having
initialised the type system with g_type_init(). you should call that
function before using types provided by GObject.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.
> 
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