Re: gtk+-2.6.1 on windows when?

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Daniel K. O. wrote:

> Now I just did a fresh GTK+ install, to make sure the problems 
> weren't caused by extracting over my old setup. And now I can't 
> use stock icons, the apps always crash in 
> gtk_icon_theme_set_screen() with this in the console:
>
> (gtk-demo.exe): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strsplit: assertion `string != NULL' 
> failed...

This looks to be in the same area as the problem I reported a couple 
of times (I think, on the gtk-app-devel list), where my app would 
crash whenever a window or menu containing a stock icon was accessed 
(on Windows, using gtk 2.6.X, that is; the app runs OK on Linux with 
gtk 2.4 or 2.6, and runs OK on Windows with gtk 2.4.14).

I did not manage to produce an intelligible diagnosis of the 
problem, and ended up dropping back to gtk 2.4.14 for the Windows 
version of my program.  (I should say, my reports related to a gtk 
2.6 setup that I cross-compiled myself; I haven't yet tried Tor's 
win32 binaries.)

FWIW, my guess is that I'm doing something wrong with my gtk 2.6 
installation on Windows.  But on the other hand, gtk 2.6 on Windows 
seems to be too fragile -- it seems to me that I should get an error 
message rather than a crash if I have failed to set things up just 
right.  (I mean, I'm fairly knowledgeable about this stuff, and my 
installation is not just totally borked in some obvious way.)

Allin Cottrell