[Geany-Devel] Problems with building/Scintilla on Windows

[Nick Treleaven]

Hi,
This is a bit rambling but I'm kind of stuck now.

I hadn't kept up to date with git master for a while. I ran into trouble 
with the windows makefiles (makefile.win32) - GTK was not defined even 
though -DGTK is passed. So I hacked PlatGTK.cxx to define it manually, 
but on running the resultant Geany aborts - a backtrace showed some 
Scintilla code (Document::Document) causing the fault. (I also had to 
remove -liberty as that doesn't seem to be part of my MinGW install).

Anyway, I gave up trying to fix the makefiles and tried Waf. It seemed 
to work, but now when using Geany autocompletion shows an empty list. It 
keeps doing this for a while on typing, then later I start typing again 
and Geany freezes - this is not a hang, task manager doesn't show Geany 
using CPU. I have to kill it. This is weird, and annoying because I 
don't know how to get a backtrace (Ctrl-Z doesn't seem to work on my 
Windows gdb, and anyway the process seems stuck rather than looping). I 
suspect a fault with Scintilla, but it could be unrelated.

I also noticed Waf doesn't seem to use -mms-bitfields, but I'm not certain.