[vtkusers] Ideas on how to debug a cross compiled program that used VTK

[Paul Douglas Hahn]

Speaking generally, stack frames 7 + 6 are nonsense indicating that 
there is a link issue or a memory trasher involved (my guess).

On 06/02/2018 02:52 AM, Guillaume Jacquenot wrote:
> Hello VTK developpers and users,
>
> I am doing cross compilation with docker dockcross for a fortran 
> program using VTK. Target is a static windows 64 bit program, which is 
> about 43 MB.
>
> - Without cross compilation, program works fine.
> - With cross compilation, program works fine when launched with wine 
> in a debian
> - With cross compilation, program seems works fine on Windows, but 
> throws error messages on error output:  Program received signal 
> SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. This error is thrown even if the program 
> just prints help and does nothing (no use of VTK code).
>
> If I disable the VTK part of my program, error goes away. (VTK part = 
> VTK library+ my wrapping Fortran code to call VTK with pointer storage 
> to keep track of vtkSmartPointer). I use other libraries that work fine.
>
>
> I don't know if it is related to VTK, but when I use gdb on Windows , 
> I get some VTK stuff appearing (See below).
>
> If anyone has a clue on how I can track this down? From the log, can 
> we say it that error is mine or comes from cross compilation? Maybe I 
> should use valgrind to see if everything really works fine with.
>
> I have tried with the static VTK 6.3 version provided by mxe, and a 
> personal static compilation of VTK 8.1.1.
>
> Thanks for reading till this point and here comes the interesting thing:
>
>     build_windows>gdb testing.exe
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>     Reading symbols from testing.exe...done.
>     (gdb) r
>     Starting program: testing.exe
>     [New Thread 11212.0x362c]
>     warning: Could not load shared library symbols for 
> C:\windows\system32\kernel64.dll.
>     Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?
>
>     Test module initialized
>
>         . : successful assert,   F : failed assert
>
>     ..........................................
>     Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>     0x0000000077adcff6 in ntdll!RtlEnterCriticalSection () from 
> C:\windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
>     (gdb) bt
>     #0  0x0000000077adcff6 in ntdll!RtlEnterCriticalSection () from 
> C:\windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
>     #1  0x0000000000b95bb6 in 
> detail::AtomicOps<8ull>::PreIncrement(detail::AtomicOps<8ull>::atomic_type*) 
> ()
>     #2  0x0000000000b81b0d in vtkTimeStamp::Modified() ()
>     #3  0x0000000000b3a0b1 in vtkObject::Modified() ()
>     #4  0x0000000000acdb18 in vtkCollection::~vtkCollection() ()
>     #5  0x0000000001417817 in 
> vtkObjectFactoryCollection::~vtkObjectFactoryCollection() ()
>     #6  0x0000000000b3aa85 in 
> vtkObjectFactory::UnRegisterAllFactories() ()
>     #7  0x000007feff57908f in wcscspn () from 
> C:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll
>     #8  0x00000000021f8348 in ?? ()
>     Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
>     (gdb) bt
>
>
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-- 
Paul D. Hahn
CompIntense HPC, LLC

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