Pinta doesn't start after installing on Windows

[Lehonti]

I tried downloading and installing the last development build of Pinta on my Windows machine, and I could not get it to run. Also, going to the installation folder and manually running ./Pinta.Exe does not report any error.

After trying several builds, I noticed that before a certain commit, Pinta runs fine, but after it, it doesn't. Also, the changes introduced by that commit don't seem to be anything that would make the application crash. Also, it runs fine on Ubuntu, so I don't think it's a crash.

I'm using Windows 11. This is how I'd reproduce it:

• Remove installation(s) of Pinta
• Download the zipped Windows installer Pinta.exe from the build artifacts, and install it. If it comes from this commit (or any commit after this one) it will fail to run; and if it comes from a commit before this one, it will run fine.

[badcel]

Perhaps this is ci related? (That around of the time of the commit something changed on the ci runner side?)

[cameronwhite]

There was also this bug report on launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/pinta/+bug/2065959) which suggested that the problems started earlier? But maybe something on the CI side was reverted and then reapplied later.

Is there any output if you try launching Pinta.exe from a console? I'm not sure offhand if Windows will show console output for a GUI app, but maybe try Pinta.exe > output.txt 2>&1

[Lehonti]

Indeed, if I just run ./Pinta.exe it doesn't show any output.

Running ./Pinta.exe > output.txt 2>&1 creates an empty file output.txt.

[cameronwhite]

There was a missing dll dependency for the packaged GTK libraries, so this was probably triggered by an MSYS update at some point. Please give the latest build a test to see if it works for you now. It's working for me on Windows 10 with the latest commit

[Lehonti]

Yes @cameronwhite, it runs now. Thanks for taking a look, and opening a related issue :)