Check if you're using the newest version of Matrox display drivers. Thanks to fast development in video cards, drivers are usually pretty low quality. :-(

/jarto

Hi,

I tested the application in the notebook and it worked.

So... the problem is between gtk and the video driver (I guess).

I think the lazarus teem should work on the win32 version (api, not gtk) to avoid the gtk problems on win32.

Horacio Jamilis

Horacio Jamilis wrote

Hi, I tried to run the Windows version of lazarus downloaded today (with the dll's I found on the lazarus site) and it crashes with the following exception:

Were there any messages on the console (or dosbox) ?

Marc

Greetings,

Yes folks I have finally gotten around to setting up everything for nightly builds of the Win32 binary. Better than that it is available in 2 variaties. Both of these files will be available each night after 4:15AM EST.

1. The first is a regular .zip file

This one contains the .exe and all of the unit files. It is designed to be unzipped into the c:\pp directory. If you have FPC in something other than c:\pp then place it there. You can also place it in it's own directory if you wish but then you need to edit the ppc386.cfg file to indicate where FPC can find the required unit files.

2. The second version is an actual Windows Installation program

This program is a regular installation program that you can use to install the Lazarus IDE and uninstall it (why would you do that :-). The installation program is also designed with 5 different languages to help you in the installation process. As with the .Zip version above this defaults to install it into the c:\pp directory. The same conditions to the location of installation applies to this as it does the .zip version. This installation is a little bigger than the .zip file because it also contains the GTK+ dll's required to run the program. It installs these into the /Windows/System directory. You of course have the choice as to wheither you actually want to install those files.

So where are they you ask?

The Zip version is

ftp://lazarus.freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarusw32.zip

The Installer version is

ftp://lazarus.freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus_ide_installer.exe

Note:
While the installation script was straight forward I would appreciate someone testing it out on a system that wasn't my build system and let me know if they incounter any problems or missing files.

Hi,

I'd like to change the video driver but I am unable to do it... It's not my computer :-(

Anyway I will keep testing lazarus on other PCs.

Horacio Jamilis

Hi,

I tried to run the Windows version of lazarus downloaded today (with the dll's I found on the lazarus site) and it crashes with the following exception:

LAZARUS provoc� un fallo de protecci�n general en el m�dulo MGAPDX64.DRV de 0003:00001fb9.
Registros:
EAX=ffffffff CS=035f EIP=00001fb9 EFLGS=00000206
EBX=00000003 SS=0eef ESP=0000766c EBP=0000000f
ECX=0000000c DS=0387 ESI=fffff97a FS=4d2f
EDX=000000de ES=4d27 EDI=00001a40 GS=0000
Bytes en CS:EIP:
67 26 0f 7f 07 66 83 c7 08 49 75 f4 8b cb f3 67
Volcado de pila:
478a7748 77780000 bff70000 00081b75 031ae6bc 001daf18 81b74fe8 000000fc bff789d1 81b50000 81b750e4 001daf18 00000000 81b5000c 81b50000 81b74fe8

I think this happens when the editor is about to be shown. If I am not mad MGAPDX64.DRV is the video driver.

Yesterday I played a bit with lazarus under windows (on other pc) and worked "fine". The editor was shown but I was unable to see the caret (or type anything on it), and I was unable to put any component on a form. But it show something, and didn�t crashed.

Keep your grait job.

Horacio Jamilis

Ronan van Riet wrote

I am surprise that after reading about the 'Nightly builds of Win32 binary now available that up to now there is no mention of that on the Lazarus web site? Why is that?

Uhhhh. It is there. Granted I didn't make an announcement on the news page. However if you look closely at the menu you will see a new item, 'Download Binaries'. This page gives the URL's to get the binary releases for both platforms.

I am surprise that after reading about the 'Nightly builds of Win32 binary now available.'

Yes folks I have finally gotten around to setting up everything for nightly builds of the Win32 binary. Better than that it is available in 2 variaties. Both of these files will be available each night after 4:15AM EST.

that up to now there is no mention of that on the Lazarus web site? Why is that?

Kind regards,

Ronan van Riet

Michael,

Yes, I see it now, thanks for pointing it out.

Ronan