RE: Compiles OK but get "0xC0000005: Access violation" when run

["Brad Starkie" <bstarkie starkieenterprises com>]

Thank all you for your pointers. I can now compile and run my executable.
The problem was that I couldn't find two of the *.lib files and had linked
to
some *.a files that I came with the DLLs instead. VC++ was happy to compile
and link with the other files,
so I assumed that this was OK. The dependency walker  application said that
the module was corrupted
or unrecognisable so I reviewed my thoughts on the *.a file.

I notice that atk-dev-1.10.3.zip doesn't contain a .lib file, but
atk-1.8.0.zip does.
I suspect (know) that there is some basic MS knowledge that I'm missing.
Perhaps
someone would be kind enough to explain to me the difference between the two
kinds of files, or more importantly how I am
meant to link to a DLL in VC++, if the zip file only contains a .dll and
.dll.a.
but no *.lib.
I suspect that this is basic stuff, but not obvious to unix-o-philes.

Regards
Brad Starkie

-----Original Message-----
From: Dov Grobgeld [mailto:dov grobgeld gmail com]
Sent: Monday, 3 July 2006 1:22 PM
To: Bradford Starkie
Cc: gtk-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Compiles OK but get "0xC0000005: Access violation" when run


0x0000005 is a generic error which it is difficult to know why it is
happening. Here are some suggestions for you to try:

* Make sure that the program compiles and runs under Linux.
* Use Dependancy Walker to investigate what dll's the program links
to. (Corresponds roughly to ldd on Linux).
* Copy your executable to the gtk binary directory and see if it works
there.
* One of the collisions that happens all the time on windows is
intl.dll that is part of activestate Tcl but is not compatible with
gtk/glib. For my installations I ended up always copying this to the
applications installation directory.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Dov


On 7/3/06, Bradford Starkie <bstarkie starkieenterprises com> wrote:
>
> I've recently written a GTK application under Linux and I'm now trying to
> compile and execute the application under win32.
>
> I've followed the instructions at
> http://wolfpack.twu.net/docs/gtkwin32/index.html. The
> software compiles without any errors or warnings but when it runs it
crashes
> with the error message.
> "test.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close."
> Which isn't particularly informative.
>
> I've constructed a hello world program using glade, and have the same
> problem executing that.
> Some things that I've tried include
> +I have put the directory containing the GTK DLLS at the head of my path.
> +I have tried stepping through with the debugger,
> I get "Unhandled exception in test.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation.
> On my hello world executable. It seems to crash before the first line is
> executed. i.e. the stack is
>
> 0002b9be()
> mainCRTStartup() line 129 + 6 bytes
> KERNEL32! 7c816d4f()
>
> On my other executable the error occurs when I execute the second of the
> following two lines
>
>   main_window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
>   gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (main_window), _("XXX"));
>
> i.e. the stack is
> create_main_window() line 92 + 20 bytes
> main(int 0, char * * 0x00000000) line 43 + 5 bytes
> KERNEL32! 7c816d4f()
> Strangely enough on another GTK executable it crashed on malloc, and when
I
> changed this to g_malloc it worked fine (but crashed at a later point).
>
> +I have tried both gtk+2.4 and gtk+2.8 with the same lack of success.
> + I have copied the DLLs into C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\
> Note I'm using visual C++ 6.0 (but my code is C)
> on a Windows XP professional version 2002 service pack 2 machine.
> I can compile and run other applications using VC++.
>
> Can anyone offer me some suggestions as to what is going on, and how to
fix
> it? Although I'm an experienced programmer I haven't compiled too many
VC++
> applications,
> and predominately use Linux or cygwin, therefore if you think that it may
be
> something basic but windows specific please let me know.
>
> Regards
> Brad Starkie
>
>
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