GtkD HelloWorld app crashes with exception

[Mike Wey]

On 05/18/2013 08:57 AM, Enjoys Math wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 May 2013 at 05:26:45 UTC, Alexandr Druzhinin wrote:
>> 18.05.2013 9:52, Enjoys Math пишет:
>>> I'm on Windows 7 64-bit and using DMD2, compiling a regular 32-bit
>>> windows app using Visual D "New Project > Windows App" and replacing
>>> winmain.d with the code below:
>>>
>> > ...
>>>
>>> I'm using GtkD-2.2.0 from here:
>>> https://code.google.com/p/gtkd-packages/downloads/list
>>>
>>> and also the 32-bit runtime from there.
>>>
>>> The output when I click "Start Debugging" in Visual D is to display a
>>> stdout window with some text (that I can't read since it's too fast.
>>> I've tried setting breakpoints to no avail), no window is ever
>>> displayed.  Then in Visual D the output log shows:
>>>
>>> <code>
>>> First-chance exception at 0x76c6c41f in WindowsApp1.exe: 0xE0440001:
>>> 0xe0440001.
>>> The program '[3848] WindowsApp1.exe: Native' has exited with code 1
>>> (0x1).
>>> </code>
>>>
>>> Thank you for any suggestions.
>> Works fine on my box. You have problem with gtk installation. But I
>> can't specify what's the reason - I downloaded previous binaries. Also
>> I recommend you to experiment with paths - check it out.
>
> I installed 2.24 from here:
> https://code.google.com/p/gtkd-packages/downloads/list
>
> And the windows 7 path is set correctly to the Gtk-Runtime\bin folder.
>
> But the same problem persists.

GtkD 2.x wraps Gtk+ 3.x so you will need the 3.8 runtime from: 
https://code.google.com/p/gtkd-packages/downloads/list

I will check out why it doesn't print the error message about not being 
able to find the Gtk3 dll.

-- 
Mike Wey