DFDEV crashes!

[rahzan]

A while back I posted a problem where as the result of AV's demo screwing up the main installation of the AV I ad to reintstall the entire CVF. However, I found out that the action of openning a file crashes the entire DFDEV.exe. After much fooling around with the IDE settings in the registry I gave up.

I later installed the ms-DEVstudio service pack which fixed the open-file problem but transferred the problem to open-workspace action!

for the 5th time I uninstalled the CVF as well as ms-VC6, reinstalled and decided to live without the open-file action so I did not put on the Dev-studio SP.

Now I am fnding out that run (F5) action also crashes DFDEV.exe with a similar access-violation type error.

I tried reinstalling CVF (starting from 5.5 to) 6.6B on another PC and the same error on file-open keeps coming up. Therefore I have developed a suspicion that one of ms-windows2k updates has caused this. I am on windows 5.00.2195 SP3
Can anybody corroborate?

Most importantly I will appreciate any help as this has largely rendered CVF useless.

Tim H

[Steven_L_Intel1]

If the crash occurs when you press F5, delete the .OPT file in your project folder, restart DevStudio and allow it to recreate the file.

Steve

[rahzan]

If you recall we've been throught all this.
I was hoping for some _real insight.
The devstudio opens fine after a crash.
It is the consistent crashing that is the problem.

Does anyone else have the similar problem?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Unfortunately, all the code involved is Microsoft's, so all we can do is go by experience rather than insight.

As I said, the problem of DevStudio crashing when you start a debug session is usually fixed by deleting the .OPT file. If it crashes when you open a workspace or file, deleting the HKCU DevStudio6.0 tree and/or installing VS6-SP5 has done the trick in all cases reported to us.

Steve

[rahzan]

I was the one who (mistakenly) reported that SP om the devsutdio fixes things. It did fixc the file-open but broke file-openworkspace!

Deleting the whole registry tree or the opt file does not help at all either (as reported in the previous thread a few weeks ago).

I seem to also be getting the problem of failing to build DLL's. On rebuild-all for a com server I get the following errors:

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Deleting intermediate files and output files for project 'UFCompiler - Win32 Debug'.
D:F90ProjectsUFCompilerUFCompilerTY.f90(142): Could not find the file UFCompiler_global.mod.
D:F90ProjectsUFCompilerUFCompilerGlobal.f90(22): Could not find the file IClassFactory_Types.mod.
D:F90ProjectsUFCompilerdllmain.f90(128): Could not find the file IClassFactory_Types.mod.
D:F90ProjectsUFCompilerdllmain.f90(129): Could not find the file IClassFactory_Methods.mod.
--------------------Configuration: UFCompiler - Win32 Debug--------------------
Creating Type Library...
Processing D:F90ProjectsUFCompilerserver.idl
midl : command line error MIDL1005 : cannot find C preprocessor cl.exe
Error executing midl.exe.

UFCompiler.dll - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
----------------------------------------------------

Unless anyone has any new ideas, I will have to pursue this with MS.

Any idea who at ms should hear this sort of this?

Tim

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The build error looks as if you uninstalled MSVC and it took away midl.exe. If this is a Fortran project, please report problems to vf-support@compaq.com and we'll try to help you out. If it's a C project, then feel free to report to Microsoft, but they'll ignore you if you say it's Fortran.

I would suggest this. Uninstall both CVF and MSVC. Delete the Microsoft Visual Studio folder. Delete the DevStudio6.0 registry trees in both LOCAL_MACHINE and CURRENT_USER.

Install CVF, run Per-User Setup. Try to open a project. If that succeeds, install MSVC and SP5 then run CVF Per-User Setup again. If you continue to have problems, write to vf-support.

Steve

[rahzan]

The project is CVF com server. I did not think that one needed msvc to build the com servers.

Regardless...

Before I read your message, starting w/ a faulty 6.6B installation, I installed MSVC6 then Devstudio SP5. It seems to be working on one PC and "mostly" on the other PC. on the latter, when I go to compile it says things like: "DFWINTY is not a DEC fortran module file".
The same for dfwin etc etc. after that, I tried running the 6.6-6.6B update but it did not help.

This sequence of installs is not the same as what you suggested (CVF came first). But I don't know what a "per-user" setup is.

Also I have not tried all the functions in DFDEV to be sure the one installation is working fully.

Any ideas?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Oh, do you also have Intel Fortran installed?

Go into Tools..Options..Directories. For the Executable, Include and Library directory types, remove any Intel Fortran paths. Exit Developer Studio.

Click Start..Programs..Compaq Visual Fortran 6..Per-User Setup.

You do not need MSVC to build a COM Server project, but if you uninstall MSVC, you need to reinstall CVF to put back some files.

Steve

[rahzan]

Ah yes,
The guinea pig PC has the IF on it.
Your idea helped. Thanks

I will report later if all functions are ok.