Profiler not working in windows

[Audette]

Hello,

I am having a problem with running the profiler on a win xp machine. I have build my code using -g and -pg. But still when I go plugins -> code  profiler, the launching gprof pop up comes up and crashes. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening.

I have tried the same code within Vista and after following the suggestions in the following thread the profiler worked. But no such luck with XP.
http://forums.next.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,1272.0.html

Before you suggest, I have reinstalled MinGW and all the associated componenets. Even uninstalled and reinstalled the Code::Blocks program without any joy

Please help.

[MortenMacFly]

Please help.

Which (exact) version of binutils you are using?

[Audette]

The current release binutils 2.17.50

The MinGW was installed from the automated installer - Ver 5.1.4

on top of it, I have installed MSys 1.0.10 and GDB 6.8-3 (release candidate)

[MortenMacFly]

The current release binutils 2.17.50

That's OK (later version(s) have bugs with gprof).

on top of it, I have installed MSys 1.0.10

Huh! This is most likely no good. You cannot and should not install MSYS on top of a compiler installation. Usually MSYS is a stand-alone "tool" which refers to the folder where GCC is installed via fstab. So this *might* be a reason.

Right... as a next step: Please try running gprof from the command line and not from within C::B. Does is crash then, too?

[Audette]

Right... as a next step: Please try running gprof from the command line and not from within C::B. Does is crash then, too?

Nope - this seems to be working fine when called from the command line.

but there must be some way to get it working within Code::Blocks as well - right???