On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 18:42 +0000, John Emmas wrote: > Forgive me if this isn't the right place for asking questions about > glibmm. I couldn't find a specific mailing list for it. > > I have 2 x gtkmm applications, both written using MSVC. I should add > that I have several years experience with MSVC, glib, gtk and glibmm/gtkmm. > > Pretty much the very first thing that both apps do is to create a > Gtk::Main object. However, the smaller app just creates a local (stack > based) object as the first thing in main(). The larger app allocates a > Gtk::Main object using 'new()'. Both methods result in a call to > 'Gtk::Main:init()' which, in turn, results in a call to > 'Gtk::Main::init_gtkmm_internals()'. Both functions can be found in > 'gtk/gtkmm/main.cc'. 'init_gtkmm_internals' then calls 'Gio::init()'' > which then calls 'Gio::wrap_init()' (which is in > 'glibmm/gio/giomm/wrap_init.cc'). So far, so good. > > AFAICT the execution path is absolutely identical for both programs. > The same functions get called in the same order with no apparent > problems - BUT - at line 456 of 'gio/giomm/wrap_init.cc' there's a > comment which says:- > > // Register the gtkmm types > > That comment is followed by around 100 calls to "whatever::get_type()". > In the small app, every call succeeds. In the larger app, every call > fails and I'm totally baffled as to why. One possible explanation is > that for simplicity, I built gtkmm and glibmm as static libs, rather > than DLLs. At the time I remember getting told that to build as Windows > DLLs I needed a utility called "gendef" but there was some doubt about > how diligently it was being kept up-to-date, so a static library build > seemed simpler - but now I'm not so sure.... > > In the smaller app it makes no difference as everything is contained in > the main exe. But the larger app uses some DLLs. Some of those DLLs > (and the main app itself) need to link to glibmm and gtkmm so of course, > each will have its own copy of glibmm and gtkmm, rather than them being > shared objects. Could that be causing a problem like this??
What is the actual problem that you are seeing? -- Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
