After a break of a few months I tried to get inkscape to compile again over the weekend but ran into a strange issue. Inkscape compiles just fine, but if I try to run it it crashes immediately (and yes, I've done several clean builds by now). Unfortunately I'm not at my laptop right now, so I can't give you the exact error, but I'm wondering whether anyone has had a similar issue and/or knows something else I could try.
I'm using TDM's GCC 4.5.1 (sjlj, and I have also tried the 64 bit version, but that fails to build inkscape at some point) on Vista, and there are no other mingw installations present (anymore). The source is unmodified, I have updated devlibs and I have done a clean build. I have also downloaded a "nightly" build for a slightly older revision (the latest I could find), and although that worked fine, updating my source to the same revision and doing a clean build of that did not. I've even tried moving my inkscape.exe into the folder of the downloaded nightly build, without success.
Interestingly just running inkscape(.com) seems to do nothing... (No crash, no output, no Inkscape, nothing.)
The crash is pretty much immediately after startup and seems to come from loading(?) lcms, but according to gdb's backtrace it crashes from some function having to do something with (stack?) frames (sorry, don't have the details with me at the moment). I googled it, and it appears this function is somehow associated with relocation of dll's.
So, sound familiar to anyone? Any ideas for what else to try?
BTW, I think it could be related to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/453931