Stable Build for Win2000?

Stable Build for Win2000?

[Geert Pante]

Hello SourceNavigator people,

I am working on an old 500.000 lines C++ project in Visual C++, and
experienced serious limitations in VC++ 6.0's builtin source browsing
capabilities.  I discovered your free product and tried to use it as an
alternative (under Win2000, SP1), but the application crashes from time to
time, mostly when I try to browse through the core file, which is avg.
50.000 lines of code.

In trying to get a more stable system, I tried to rebuild the
SourceNavigator from the source code.  I didn't find an easy way to do it in
VC++, but could ./configure it under cygwin, Cygnus' port of GNU utilities
to Win32.  The configuration worked there, but the compilation failed at
what seems to be some cygwin-specific details I couldn't figure out (some
header files in the mingw32 include dir were incompatible, I think).

So, what I want to ask to you is, how do I compile SN4.5.2 under Win2000
(preferably under VC++), or do you have a more recent, more stable version
for me than the 4.5.2 version on your FTP-site?

greetings, Geert Pante.

Re: Stable Build for Win2000?

[Mo DeJong]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Geert Pante wrote:

> Hello SourceNavigator people,
> 
> I am working on an old 500.000 lines C++ project in Visual C++, and
> experienced serious limitations in VC++ 6.0's builtin source browsing
> capabilities.  I discovered your free product and tried to use it as an
> alternative (under Win2000, SP1), but the application crashes from time to
> time, mostly when I try to browse through the core file, which is avg.
> 50.000 lines of code.
> 
> In trying to get a more stable system, I tried to rebuild the
> SourceNavigator from the source code.  I didn't find an easy way to do it in
> VC++, but could ./configure it under cygwin, Cygnus' port of GNU utilities
> to Win32.  The configuration worked there, but the compilation failed at
> what seems to be some cygwin-specific details I couldn't figure out (some
> header files in the mingw32 include dir were incompatible, I think).
> 
> So, what I want to ask to you is, how do I compile SN4.5.2 under Win2000
> (preferably under VC++), or do you have a more recent, more stable version
> for me than the 4.5.2 version on your FTP-site?

Version 4.5.2 is the most recent one available. You could try debugging
the crash you are running into. Posting s C stack trace of the spot where 
it crashed might help. You can find Windows build instructions in
the mailing list archive. If the problem is in Tcl code, you don't
need to recompile that, you can just edit it in place if you like.

If you are uninterested in debugging the problem yourself, you
might want to look into purchasing a support contract.

cheers
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc