[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.2 Win64 IDE crashes when opening file dialog box

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 13/03/2014 10:36, Jy V wrote:
> it crashes the IDE after few seconds,
> I have seen this http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25067
> and few others related bugs as being closed,
> so maybe someone found a workaround ?

Yes; as you can see in the last comments in that bug report, the
workaround is to use FPC trunk which has SEH support and fixes the
problem. The SEH changes won't be backported to 2.6.x though as they are
too big/invasive.

A perhaps easier workaround is to install the 32 bit IDE, then install
the 32=>64 bit cross compiler installer.
This way, you can still build 64 bit applications if needed (note:
which, however, will have the same exception handling problems as the 64
bit IDE).

See also:
- the Lazarus 1.2 announcements that have a warning about this and refer to
-
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_Programming_Tips#FPC_2.6.x.2FLazarus_warning_.28Missing_support_for_SEH.29