Comment 17 for bug 1719482

Hi Tristan, yes, if even the gtk-demo crashes it is certainly not an Inkscape issue.

It might still be a packaging problem but I'd say that's unlikely as it seems to be an isolated issue. If you want to make 100% sure you can install MSYS2 - which is the currently recommended method to obtain GTK on Windows [1] and is also what Inkscape uses since 0.92.2 - and test there again. (in "Step 2" you should install mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk2 though as Inkscape 0.92.x still uses gtk2; of course you can cross check with gtk3; skip all other steps, they're unnecessary).

Going forward I can only recommend you to carry this upstream [2] (see section "Bug Reporting" to the right). Maybe gtk folks are able to help you out and/or know a few tricks to make gtk explain why it's failing...

> There are quite a few mentions of 32 in there,
> this is supposed to be a 64bit install, is that ok?

If you mean "libgdk-win32" that's perfectly fine. "win32" is a short (and slightly imprecise) name for the "Windows API" [3] which all applications compiled for Windows use. libgdk-win32 is simply the Windows backend library of GDK [4].

[1] https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php
[2] https://www.gtk.org/development.php
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_API
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDK