Why eC IDE gives me an Error ???

[eC friend]

I installed http://www.ecere.com/setup-ecere-0.43-win32.exe in a
Windows OS.

I downloaded the 32 Mb version of ECERE IDE with the ming-32 in.
When i first installed i got an Error of Visual studio JIT . A typical
unhandled exception.
So i tried to kill explorer.exe and i tried again and it showed no
errors.
But the program does not work properly
I think there must be a conflict with the windows visual studio Jit
debbuger.
But i am not why , and i am not sure how to stop it.

I get this Error whenever i try to build the Samples .

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
Fatal Error: child process terminated unexpectedly

what do you suggest to do , to make it work ?

[Jerome St-Louis]

Hi there,

You said when you first installed Ecere you got an error from Visual
Studio? (Not from the Ecere installer?)

I am aware of a bug in the installer of 0.43 which sometimes crashes
on the first install, but either still installs properly or works the
second time around... I will fix it for next release if I can
reproduce the problem.

How far along does Ecere work? Can you start the IDE fine?
You can look under File / Global Settings if the path to your MinGW
executables and Ecere executables are set properly. The first thing
the IDE tries to do after generating the Makefile is executing the
make.exe which should be located in the Ecere SDK/MinGW/bin/ folder.
That is likely where the error building is occurring. The Installer by
default also adds those binary folders to your PATH environment
variable..

Please let me know if this helps or if you still have problems with it
I will do my best to help you get Ecere running,

Best regards,

Jerome

[eC friend]

Hi
The first time iinstalled it couldn't finish installing because of the
JiT break.
But the Ecere installer just paused and i have to abort it by exiting
the installer.
After the second install The GUI works fine.with all the functionality
of a gui
and it is very fast responding gui (that's great) :-).

So under File --> Global Settings the pop-up window shows that i have
C:\Program Files\ECERE SDK\mingw\bin
and
C:\Program Files\ECERE SDK\bin
for the executables
and for the libraries files it shows
C:\Program Files\ECERE SDK\bin
finally for the include files it shows
C:\Program Files\ECERE SDK\mingw\include

Also the Path Enviroment variable is set right.

So i tried to compile my self a tiny program i made my self throught
the command line
and i got from gcc the same output .
So i believe that somehow the Ecere installer does not installs
correct the mingw files.
Because clearly gcc does not work. :(

[Jerome St-Louis]

How exactly did you try to build with GCC from the command line?
When running from the IDE, I believe the paths from the global
settings should take precedence on all your other paths...

But let's try to get you to use that GCC first...
Also which Windows version are you on? Vista has its own issues.
Although last time I tested it was all working :)

Let's see what you're doing and the output you have from GCC?
The installer does not do much more than extracting the files in the
folder and adding it ot the path, that's all that should be required.

[eC friend]

I tested in Windows XP Service pack 3

After compiling :

gcc -o test source.c

as i said before i got the following:

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

If the installer does not do much more than extracting the files in
the
folder and adding it ot the path , i am very curious about what it is
actually doing.

Whenever i install mingw with or without any other package it just
works.
I ensure you that i have unistalled all previous installations of
mingw even if they weren't in my PATH
Just to be sure.
I also disabled the Antivirus (AVG antivirus scans files on close...)

But i am afraid that the only thing that i haven't unistalled is the
visual studio
which it must be (i beleive) the only program left that might
confilcts with Ecere installation.
As soon as i have enough spare time i will try to unistall it,test
the Ecere and then i will know if the problem
was a confilict with Visual studio.

[Jerome St-Louis]

The whole situation is very strange, but you could always make use of
any other MinGW version with Ecere.

All you will need to do for the IDE to be able to execute the builds
is to copy mingw-make.exe to make.exe in Ecere's bin folder.

There shouldn't be any conflicts with visual studios... But then of
course uninstalling other applications which can potentially conflict
in terms of executables etc. is always good in trying to determine
where the problem is... Also please note that the version of MinGW
that is in the 0.43 installer is an alpha release of MinGW GCC 4.

One thing you could try is simply try it on another machine, as Ecere
installed and run without problems for many people... That could help
identify the source of the problem.

Please keep me up to date on your attempts, good luck!

Cheers,

Jerome