> I believe this is related to a windows only bug in the > FootprintListBox constructor. CVPCB will crash because of the use of > an unitialized pointer in the constructor. > > the fix is to add the line > > m_ActiveFootprintList = NULL; > to the constructor, line 74 cvpcb/listboxes.cpp
Mike, Jean-Pierre applied this change to svn HEAD and to tags/kicad-2007-Nov/cvpcb/listboxes.cpp versions both, on December 10th. If you can build either the 2007-Nov release from source or HEAD from source, this *may* be your fix. Dick Hollenbeck SoftPLC Corporation http://softplc.com