Vista (final) BSODs when running an app with the precompiled win32 SDL.dll

SDL Development
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Hi list! I hope this hasn’t been answered already (I Google’d the ml
archives, and found only one thread on this back in December at
http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2006-December/058997.html).

Vista still crashes in the exact same way when starting my executable.
I’m cross-compiling with MinGW, using the SDL-devel zip from the
stable downloads page.
The application’s only peculiarity is the use of Cocotron
http://www.cocotron.org’s Foundation framework and Objective-C
runtime. It does not use OpenGL. All it does is SDL_Init, load a BMP,
then while(!done) blit a BMP onto the screen, flip.

Is this fixed in HEAD, or is there some other workaround I should be aware of?

Thanks,

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The application’s only peculiarity is the use of Cocotron
http://www.cocotron.org’s Foundation framework and Objective-C
runtime. It does not use OpenGL. All it does is SDL_Init, load a BMP,
then while(!done) blit a BMP onto the screen, flip.

Do the SDL test programs crash as well? I haven’t had any problems on Vista.

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Lead Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment