Windows XP crashes with a very simple gtk + cairo program

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Windows XP crashes with a very simple gtk + cairo program

I am developing a Gtk application using gtkmm on Windows Vista with Visual Studio 2005. The application works fine on the development machine, but I received crash reports after it was run on computers running Windows XP (as with Service Pack 2 and 3) , I am distributing an application with the directory structure described at http://live.gnome.org/gtkmm/MSWindows , and so far this has not given me problems.

The crash does not give error messages, except for Windows asking if I want to report an error.

To solve the problem, I tried to compile the program against different versions of gtkmm (the recent stable version is gtkmm-win32-devel-2.16.0-4 and an older version of gtkmm-win32-devel-2.10.11 -1), but the problem persists.

I searched for the problem before calling window-> create_cairo_context () inside the on_expose_event object from Gtk :: DrawingArea. When I commented on this call, the problem will disappear. So I wrote the following minimal program that still crashes:

#include <gtkmm.h>
    #include <iostream>

class MyWindow : public Gtk::Window {
    bool on_expose_event(GdkEventExpose* event) {
        std::cout << "expose" << std::endl;

        Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Window> window = get_window();
        if(window) {
            std::cout << "win" << std::endl;
            std::cout << "Get cairo" << std::endl;
            Cairo::RefPtr<Cairo::Context> cr = window->create_cairo_context();
            std::cout << "Get cairo done" << std::endl;
        } else {
            std::cout << "no win" << std::endl;
        }

        return true;
    }
};

int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
    Gtk::Main m(argc,argv);
    MyWindow w;
    m.run(w);
    return 0;
}