World: r3wp

Kaj: you got a message here: https://gist.github.com/1326101

Got my QEMU/ARM Debian instance working properly now. I am using 
WinSCP to automatically transfer the compiled binary files between 
the host and guest OS.

green lights for Red !!

I am trying more Red examples from Kaj's bindings.  Some working 
well.... but GTK failing on libgio-2.0-0.dll   Other DLLs that were 
needed for WinXP seemed to be in the mysql distribution ... except 
this one.     Little hits on reliable downloads of pre-built DLL. 
  Anybody used it in WinXP?

I've uploaded a zipped copy of mine: http://sidl.fr/tmp/libgio-2.0-0.zip

merci

But, I have tested it on Seven only...

Soon on XP

Cascading DLL problems ... libglib*....  Can you provide the full 
DLL list that works with GTK?

Let me find that...

Here's the direct download link for the GTK runtime I'm using: http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gtk-win/GTK%2B Runtime Environment/GTK%2B 2.22/gtk2-runtime-2.22.0-2010-10-21-ash.exe

Mike, I got the DLL versions for Windows from the official Windows 
download from the GTK site

Although it may just have been followed up by a newer version

I have 2.22.1-20101227 here

Nope, still the same bundle on the site

There are individual packages for the new 2.24, though, which replaces 
2.16 as the stable Windows version

Thanks there is no guarantee that I am doing it right but I am anxious 
to get it working. Thanks for the help guys.

Nice. All examples now  working now except GTK-widgets

With empirical debugging, this line passes the compile but make sthe 
execution fail  "fixed button [50 25  "Print"  :get-lines lines] 
gtk-tight"

Yes ... lots of those in the example ... it is the last one ... commented 
out and the executable does not fail.

How does it fail?

GTK-widgets.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We 
are sorry for the inconvenience.

Exception Information/Code: 0xc000005  /Flags 0x0000000

p.s. thanks Kaj. That is an awesome amount of work you have taken 
on for the bindings.   Almost Doc-like.

Thanks :-)

Maybe Doc can see some meaning in that exception report. I'm not 
familiar with it

Are you starting it from a command prompt? If you do, do you get 
any extra output?

Same result from cmd or clicking on file icon or Git/Mingw32

No extra info

That vbox works if you comment out the vbox before it.

Works if you stick a fixed block in that hbox block ... well at least 
at the beginning

Which GTK version are you using?

libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll

checksum/method read/binary %libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll 'md5
== #{387C74458D7A43EBDD37FB61D39E28D0}

Back in a few hours ... Friday mid-night approaching.

That's only a very coarse library version that has stayed the same 
for a long time. What package version did you install?

I confirm the crash on GTK-widgets.exe, but it is working fine if 
compiled in debug mode (using -g), so I guess this qualifies as an 
heisenbug. :-)

I will investigate that issue later today.

It seems that the import section in the binary is corrupted when 
that script is compiled.

MikeL: I've pushed a fix in Red's master branch for the issue with 
gtk-widgets.exe, it now works fine on Win7 (should be ok on XP too).

Thanks. Works on XP.

Cool. :-)

The gtk-widgets.exe demo is really cool, it shows both the quality 
of the binding and the dialecting possibilities of Red/System (kudos 
for Kaj for inventing it!). Kaj really pushed it very far...and this 
is only v0.2.2 of Red. ;-)

Agreed. I tried to combine a GTK with a ZMQ.... I start to get collisions 
on #includes.      Is there an #include/check option that I didnot 
see in Section 10  http://static.red-lang.org/red-system-specs-light.html#section-10.2

No /check option (is that an option from Ladislav's #include?).

Collisions: we are currently lacking modules in Red/System, I plan 
to introduce them at some point, I'm waiting to go deeper in Red 
runtime implementation first to figure out the adequate approach 
for modules support.

Yes Ladislav's gem ...  include/check prevents scripts from being 
re-included (included more than once).   http://www.rebol.net/wiki/INCLUDE_documentation

IIRC, there's already such feature built in Red/System preprocessor, 
but it's based on absolute paths of included files.

I will try your example of including both GTK and ZMQ to see if something 
is going wrong in the preprocessor.

Harking back to the discussion of Red strings, it might interest 
you to know that the SMS character set uses the 0 position for the 
@ character. Just one of many character sets that won't work with 
C strings. C string support is good for Red/System apps that have 
to access C string library functions, but is a bit too limiting for 
Red itself.