Re: Some questions about GResource handling on Windows

[tarnyko tarnyko net]

Hi Chun-wei, 

I noticed the same bug when running GTK+ 3.6.1 demo on Win32. I'll second 
your bug report so that it becomes more visible. 

Fan Chun-wei writes: 

> Hi, 
>
> I was building the GTK+ sources about a few days ago (latest GIT checkout 
> circa 2/24/2013, in which I built my tarballs using 'make dist' on Linux 
> before I proceeded to build the resulting tarball on my Windows 7 system 
> using Visual C++ 2008.  I have noticed that the gtk-demo sources have been 
> recently ported to make more use of GResources via 
> gdk_pixbuf_new_from_resource(), gtk_image_new_from_resource() and 
> gtk_builder_add_from_resource(), but somehow the files that was loaded via 
> the use of demo_resources.c (compiled from demo.gresource.xml) failed to 
> load as they could not be found, causing the demos to fail.  By declaring 
> a GError in setup_default_icon() for gdk_pixbuf_new_from_resource(), this 
> is the message I received when I printed the GError->message to stderr:
> ---
> Unable to read file: The resource at '/gtk-logo-old.png' does not exist
> **
> ERROR:..\..\..\demos\gtk-demo\main.c:867:setup_default_icon: assertion 
> failed: (
> pixbuf) 
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual 
> way.
> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
> --- 
>
> I have also compiled the demos.gresource.xml file as a.gresources, and the 
> attached a.resources.details is what I have when I ran "gresource details 
> a.gresources", for references. 
>
> Interestingly, I was able to successfully run the GResources tests from 
> GLib (under GIO), and the widget-factory demo, which also made use of 
> GResources, so I am wondering whether GResource handling on Windows might 
> be different from *NIX platforms in certain cases?  Or I may have missed 
> some points on this? 
>
> I have filed a bug regarding this, bug 694342 
> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694342>, for references. 
>
> Any pointers or info are highly appreciated. 
>
> Thank you, with blessings!