Subject: Re: Compiling Win32 AbiWord
From: Michael D. Pritchett (mpritchett@attglobal.net)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 23:53:55 CDT
>
> I have installed Cygwin 1.3.2. This isnīt the version used in the
> sketchy documentation on the web site, but I expect that itīs not the
> root of my problem.
> The source is from CVS and MS VC 6 is used to compile.
>
> I do a "make distribution ABI_BUILD_VERSION=1.2.3" and after a while I
> get an .exe.
>
> In a standard 0.7.14 installation I use this new .exe instead of the
> original one. And now the problems begin...
>
> AbiWord starts, but craches very frequently (not randomly, only when
> using specific features), including every time I try to open/import an
> .abi document! I can import .doc and .rtf documents, but I can't open
> Abi's native format. I think this should be nominated as a showstopper
> bug :-)
I can confirm this bug. The release version doesn't appear to be working in
Windows using the make system.
>
> The really wierd thing is that when I compile with ABI_OPT_DEBUG=1
> everything seems to work.
I confirm this too. If it works under debug and not ndebug, it is generally
a memory problem and the difference between DEBUG_NEW and new operators. I
am hopefuly that with Mike Nordell's assistance - we can squash the memory
problems and this issue will go away. But just in case, I will review the
make file systems for windows.
Nice catch Nikolaj.
Cheers!
Micahel D. Pritchett
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