win32 trunk daily build runs again (was: still broken)

[John Ralls]

On Apr 28, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> On woensdag 27 april 2011, Christian Stimming wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 27. April 2011 schrieb Geert Janssens:
>>> On zondag 24 april 2011, Christian Stimming wrote:
>>>> Am Sonntag, 24. April 2011 schrieb Martin Preuss:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Samstag 23 April 2011, Christian Stimming wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> 
>>>>>> There's now a new win32 binary at
>>>>>> http://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/trunk/ , r20593. Can someone
>>>>>> with Windows please check whether it can be installed and actually
>>>>>> started?
>>>>> 
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unfortunately, it doesn't even start :-(
>>>>> I see the splash screen for a few milliseconds and I also see that
>>>>> the main windows seems to be created, but it is immediately
>>>>> destroyed. gconf seems to be running fine and it automatically stops
>>>>> after some time...
>>>> 
>>>> I tried the r20595 build on another Windows XP system, and there it
>>>> installed and ran just fine. No crashes or similar. (The only obvious
>>>> UI bug is that the non-highlighted tab titles are blacked out instead
>>>> of readable, but I think this is already in bugzilla.)
>>>> 
>>>> What are others seeing?
>>> 
>>> I just downloaded r20596 and installed it on my Windows XP test system. I
>>> get the same experience as Martin. The splash screens pops up very
>>> briefly together with another window (tip of the day ? main window ?)
>>> and then just quits. There is no useful information in the trace file.
>>> I'll start a local build to see if that also fails.
>> 
> I have finally managed to create a local build again. If I install this build, 
> it runs fine. However, if I download and installd r20596 from the build 
> server, this starts and immediatly stops. I have also tried to run it from 
> gdb, which just ends with
> "Program exited normally"
> Which is very strange as I didn't exit the program myself. The default trace 
> file is empty. When I run gnucash --debug --log "gnc=debug", I get the 
> attached trace file.
> 
>> I wonder whether the dependency walker tool might show some conflicts in
>> the DLLs that are being used.
>> 
> Not at first sight. A depends on the downloaded gnucash doesn't show any 
> unusual dll issues.
> 
> No idea what is going on here.

Set a breakpoint on exit (i.e., (gdb) br exit) and try again.

Regards,
John Ralls