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Re: building insight with mingw
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:12:46PM -0800, Keith Seitz wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 12:37, Dave Murphy wrote:
>>I've managed to get past the ide_cygwin_path stuff now, everything
>>compiles and installs but Insight just stops for no readily apparent
>>reason. Attempting to debug gives me a SIGSEGV in mscvrt.dll relating
>>to setjmp which is confusing me a little.
>
>I think you've hit the proverbial brick wall. Gdb uses setjmp/longjmp,
>and I suspect it always will.
>
>Apparently, there may be API errors between the unix way and the
>windows way of dealing with this call. Here's a start: Is it possible
>that gcc and msdev are using different memory layouts?
>
>I would try writing a small test application which does setjmp/longjmp
>and compiling that with mingw gcc. Does it work work?
Wouldn't it be best to be working these kind of issues out with the
mingw mailing list? I doubt that we have many people with windows
experience here.
cgf