[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#15711) sdl-gui error on win32

["Christian Prochaska" <cp.ml.freeciv.dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15711 >

> [john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Sa 01. Apr 2006, 07:33:45]:
> 
> exe_tmp@xxxxxx wrote:
> > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15711 >
> > 
> >> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15711 >
> >> 
> >>> [john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Di 28. Feb 2006, 02:49:32]:
> >>> 
> >>> I've had this error too. It is the weirdest most possible error -
> >>> some sort of compiler bug, I'm guessing. If you put a freelog in
> >>> fz_from_file in utility/ioz.c, between is_reg_file_for_access and
> >>> the switch 
> >> statement, the
> >>> error seems to go away, but only with -O2. I have absolutely no
> >>> clue why this might be.
> >>> 
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: <exe_tmp@xxxxxx>
> >>> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 8:44 PM
> >>> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#15711) sdl-gui error on win32
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15711 >
> >>> 
> >>> hi,
> >>> i compiled freeciv as a sdl-gui client on win32 using mingw, yet i
> >>> get an error when starting it, gdb output as following:
> >>> 
> >>> $ gdb civclient.exe
> >>> GNU gdb 5.2.1
> >>> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >>> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
> >>> and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
> >>> under certain conditions.
> >>> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> >>> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
> >>> details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-mingw32"...(no
> >>> debugging symbols found)...
> >>> (gdb) run
> >>> Starting program: e:\freeciv/civclient.exe
> >>> 
> >>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> >>> 0x0043f9ad in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
> >>> (gdb) bt
> >>> #0  0x0043f9ad in _size_of_stack_reserve__ ()
> >>> (gdb) Cannot access memory at address 0x200000
> >>> 
> >>> regards
> >>> martin
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> which Windows version?
> > 
> > well i'm using windows xp sp2, not sure about mr. bauman there ;)
> Same here, XP SP2 home, SDL client 2.1/HEAD.
> 

does the 2.1.0-beta1 binary package work for you?

And regarding the "_size_of_stack_reserve__ ()", according to this site

http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg10165.html

it could mean that the debug symbols are missing.