Roy Sutton wrote:> Sorry guys, real life hit hard and I''ve been unavailable. Do you
want
> me to upload the 0.0.37 binary gem for Windows or just scrap it for now?
>
No problems mate. I don''t think we should upload a gem that we know is
pretty crashy, but I wouldn''t mind if you could send me a link to it
off-list.
I''m trying to get the VC2005 Express set up so I can try a Windows
build
at some point.> I am also concerned that I didn''t get a good build on Linux yet.
I was
> excited that I had a version running but realized that somehow it was
> building with debug versions of wxGTK. Once I got the release version
> installed properly and re-built wxRuby it now crashes right away.
>
If we can stabilise things a bit we can try another release soon that
fixes Linux. My personal highest priority would be Windows, since it''s
much the most downloaded port.> For testing memory problems on Windows I tried putting a GC.start into a
> menu item so I could trigger it whenever I wanted. Sadly, no matter how
> small the application was or how how hard I tried to make sure nothing
> got collected it would always crash after the GC.start. If I put the
> GC.start into the program elsewhere it wouldn''t crash. When my
Linux
> version of wxRuby was working the GC.start never caused a problem.
Thanks for the info. I''ll try some of those same steps. I find on Mac
also that even with liberal sprinklings of dangerous stuff (GC''ing,
then
accessing destroyed windows) I can''t force a
segfault.> So,
> I''m a little stumped until I can build a full debug version on
Windows
> that I can use with the Windows debugger.
I''m a little bit stumped too at the moment... Is that debugger a free
tool?
alex