Re: Strange initialization problem with Gtk::Main

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 17:04 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> On 29/10/2013 15:59, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > What is the actual problem that you are seeing?
>
> Hi Murray,
>
> I built two programs.  The small one runs perfectly but the larger one 
> crashes before anything even appears on screen.

Do you see any warnings? Do you have a backtrace from your debugger?

Are you trying to instantiate a gtkmm type before gtkmm has been
initialized? For instance are you using a gtkmm type in a global static
object?

>   In 'gtk/gtkmm/main.cc', 
> the function 'init_gtkmm_internals()' fails when it calls 
> 'Gio::init()'.  Gio::init() calls Gio::'wrap_init()' (in 
> 'gio/giomm/wrap_init.cc') but it fails to register all the gtkmm types 
> beyond line 456.
>
> However, since my post this morning I've figured out how to use gendef.  
> So I can now build my libraries as DLLs, rather than static libs.  I'm 
> quietly hopeful that this will fix the problem.


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