From: Matt Mower <matt.mower@...>
Date: 2005-02-25T19:27:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Visual C++ Run-time error with rubyw.exe

Hi NIck,

Thanks for your reply.

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:49:27 +0900, Nick <devel@nicreations.com> wrote:
> Well, since FreeRIDE is a FXRuby app, I would say yes.
> 

Now this is interesting.

Using:

    "C:\Program Files\FreeRIDE\freeruby-win\bin\rubyw.exe" -rubygems freeride.rb

I can open FreeRIDE and use it fine, no crash.  However when I shut
the application down it hangs (but without an error dialog) and I have
to kill the process.

Puzzlingly I couldn't seem to get "fxri" to start under the FreeRIDE
installed version of Rubyw, nor could I get freeride.rb to start using
the one-click rubyw.  In neither case did a window open.

I note also that both the one-click installed version of Ruby and the
FreeRIDE 0.9.3 installed versions of ruby.exe and rubyw.exe are
exactly the same according to a binary file compare.

> Sadly, the only way I know how to debug something like this is to run
> ruby under the visual studio debugger (with the debug symbols for fxruby
> loaded in) and try to replicate the crash. Sorry.
> 

Do you have a set of steps I could follow to do this myself?  I have
Visual Studio 2003 but I'm not sure how to go about running ruby under
the VS debugger or importing 3rd party debug symbols.

I'm sure I'd be in a better position if I at least understood where
this was crashing.

Many thanks,

Matt

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