[Mono-dev] Trying to build embedded samples on VS 2005

[Robert Jordan]

robiwan wrote:
> 
> 
> Robert Jordan wrote:
>> You must be confusing something. The embedding API does not
>> require mono's sources. The official binary installer for Windows
>> is installing the header into the correct location.
>>
> 
> Most probably, thnx. The dependencies in the VS solution threw me off.
> Anyway, got it to compile and run but I get a stack smash when trying the
> test_invoke sample (function access_reference_field), when the utf16 to utf8
> converted string is released with g_free, the c++ runtime complains of stack
> corruption. That function g_utf16_to_utf8 is used all around mono, so I
> don't know yet why it crashes in access_reference_field... 

This usually happens if the embedding application was not dynamically
linked against glib (or if it was linked against the wrong glib
version). How did you compile the sample?

Robert