Threadscope isn't working on Windows

[kamkamkil]

Trying to sue current version on Windows, when invoking from CLI i don't get any response, neither while using eventlog file nor with ./threadscope.exe --test ch8
Windows version: 21H1
GHC version: 8.10.4
gtk2 version : 2.24.33-2

[Mikolaj]

CI of our latest release

https://github.com/haskell/ThreadScope/actions/runs/473173253

tests 8.10.3 on Windows, but I doubt it's a regression in 8.10.4. Are you able to run any other GTK programs? A GTK demo of some kind? Are you able to run something like strace and ldd to check what libraries are expected and used by the binary and what's at the paths it mentions?

[kamkamkil]

i was able to run gtk-demo, all logger apps i tried wasn't able to test treadscope because it wouldn't run at all.

[kamkamkil]

downgrading to ghc 8.10.4 didn't help

[Mikolaj]

That won't tell us much, but what's the exit code?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/334879/how-do-i-get-the-application-exit-code-from-a-windows-command-line

[kamkamkil]

if i understand correctly errorlevel is -1073741701

[Mikolaj]

"The error you're seeing usually indicates that a runtime dll can't be found." If so, something akin to ldd would help or generally any Windows tool that tells you the paths of dlls the binary expects. Then check what's on those paths, I guess.

[kamkamkil]

i think that all dependencies :

i used:
https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies

[kamkamkil]

it clearly can't find gtk library, it does have properly set up environment variables, and demo app does work.

[Mikolaj]

As a workaround, can you copy the missing libraries to where the binary is?

BTW, how did you obtain the threadscope binary?

[kamkamkil]

i got all binaries from Releases, putting libgtk in the same folder doesn't help, and i couldn't find other libraries.

[Mikolaj]

I guess, you need to put all that are marked in red on your picture. If searching your whole computer doesn't turn them out, it means your installation of GTK is faulty. Perhaps the demo exercised only one of the libraries.

@maoe: perhaps we could include all libraries in the release zip? Or does GTK require some special configuration on and budling the dlls would not be enough. E.g., here I bundle SDL dlls for my game in AppVeyor CI: https://github.com/LambdaHack/LambdaHack/blob/master/appveyor.yml#L54--L70

[Mikolaj]

@kamkamkil: e.g., perhaps the installer asked you to install or expose libatk via ticking some boxes, but you didn't? It's also possible they somehow changed the paths where they store the libraries vs January when TS was built.

[kamkamkil]

after coping all the libs to folder dependencies showed me that all the right libs are loaded, now i'm getting -1073741511 error. When trying to run exe i get new error: procedure deflatesetheader not found in libgio and inflateReset2 in libpng16-16. those are not found in dependencies.

[Mikolaj]

Perhaps the version of GTK changed since the binary was compiled? Though in principle they should strive to keep backward compatibility. Doh, the logs for CI expired and so I can't find which version was used for the release.

Did you try reinstalling GTK? Can you describe the steps when installing, version, etc? Perhaps somebody can compare against own installation...

[kamkamkil]

I dowlanded gtk from msys using command from readme, i installed and reinstaled it several times.