[semi-OT] gdb backtrace on windows

2009-10-19 Thread Andrea Zagli
i'm trying to debug a gtk+ based program on windows inside mingw/msys with gdb (7.0) my problem is that when my program crash i get from the backtrace only these two rows #0 0x77c035e4 in ?? () #1 0x in ?? () i used autotools, so my program is compiled with -g (i saw it during

[SOLVED] Re: Cannot get pipes to work with glibmm

2009-10-19 Thread Bastien Dalla Piazza
Hi, Sorry to flood the list with my broken pipes stories but I finally found a way to get this to work! hurray! Here is a solution. The following code just spawn a shell to which you can send commands. #include glibmm.h #include gtkmm/main.h #include vector #include string #include iostream

Re: [semi-OT] gdb backtrace on windows

2009-10-19 Thread Tor Lillqvist
my problem is that when my program crash i get from the backtrace only these two rows #0  0x77c035e4 in ?? () #1  0x in ?? () what am I doing wrong? Nothing, probably, that would cause this unuseful backtrace, you just have bad luck and the program crashes in an unfortunate context

Re: [semi-OT] gdb backtrace on windows

2009-10-19 Thread Dan Kegel
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Tor Lillqvist t...@iki.fi wrote: The most likely cause for weird errors is heap corruption. Does your program run on Linux? Have you tried running it under valgrind to find heap corruption errors? (See http://live.gnome.org/Valgrind for instructions, in

Thumbnailing service project; opinions, suggestions?

2009-10-19 Thread Mark
Hi, on school i study Computer Science. That exists of a dozen Major semesters and a few Minor semesters. Each lasts 10 weeks and that for 3 years. So this project, described in depth below, will have to be done within 10 school weeks of which the first 8 are the creation weeks. After that it

Re: Thumbnailing service project; opinions, suggestions?

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 16:20 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: We already have a thumbnailing service that is only just now starting to be used. A complete reimplementation of soemthing existing will not be a very useful thing. I also suggest that 13weeks for your entire plan is very over optimistic. I

Re: Thumbnailing service project; opinions, suggestions?

2009-10-19 Thread Mark
Hi, Let me say this again. (said it but apparently not clear) I am currently in a school semester which takes roughly 3 weeks till that one is done. Then the next semester starts (and each semester takes 10 weeks) which is the thumbnailing service semester. So i only have 10 weeks not 13. of