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

[Nick Treleaven]

On 18/01/2015 14:20, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On 17/01/15 13:28, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe it's a bug in GTK+? Which version are you using? It might be
>>> worthwhile to test with some different version of the bundle just to see.
>>
>> Maybe, I haven't updated it in ages (GTK 2.22.0, GLib 2.26.0), it still
>> works for Geany master a month or two ago. But maybe some recent code
>> triggered a bug in it, perhaps the Scintilla 1.52 update. Next week I
>> will try and bisect the commit that did it, and perhaps try updating GTK
>> too.
>
> Does the empty auto completion list look like this?
> http://lists.geany.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20141014/0cc74183/attachment-0002.png

Yes, pretty much. I'm not using RDP.

> This is what I experienced some time ago. I assumed it might be related
> to RDP which I use to connect to my Windows box.
> If you got the same thing and you are not using RDP, it might something
> more serious.
>
> I don't remember to experience any hangs but I don't really use Geany on
> Windows except for making Windows builds.
>
> Hah, I just tried the Windows nightly builds (i.e. download the ZIP and
> extract it over my existing Geany installation) and then the auto
> completion list is filled and usable again on my system.
> So it might be related to the differences in how the Geany binary is
> created (the nightlies are also built using Waf but cross-compiled, not
> native Windows builds).
>
> Nick, can you confirm that the nightly builds work better?

I just tried it (was offline for the weekend ;-)), the nightly does have 
the correct autocompletion list.

Thanks for the info.