[Sumover-tech] Exceptions when compiling VIC for Windows

[Michael Miller]

Doug,

I'm compiling the non-GPL vic.  I'm just not sure how to go about debugging when all I've got is an address and "???".

thoughts?

Michael Miller
System Engineer
NCSA
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Kosovic" <doug at uq.edu.au>
To: "Michael Miller" <mimiller at ncsa.illinois.edu>
Cc: sumover-tech at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 7:46:44 PM
Subject: RE: [Sumover-tech] Exceptions when compiling VIC for Windows

Hi Michael,

> when running in debug mode.  The debugger takes me to the Disassembly
> window and points to:
> 021b586 ???
> 
> which is less than unhelpful.

In the bottom right of VisiualStudio I think the backtrace pane which can be selected would probably show more useful info.

> I followed the instructions here:
> http://mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk/nets/mmedia/browser/vic/branches/mpeg4/
> win32/build_install.txt
> and installed DXSDK June 2010, ActiveTCL 8.5.9.1 along with the Common
> trunk.
> 
> I'm on WinXPsp3 with VS2008.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Are you building GPL vic or nonGPL vic? See Build->'Configuration Manager...' menu. If you are building GPL vic and using zip 3.0, instead of zip 2.x or 3.1, you'll get a weird error similar to what you are seeing. zip 3.0 has a bug when setting the offset of the zip file appended to an exe file.



Cheers,
Doug