I am sorry to have caused a confusion... it was a mistake from my part... as I had said in my previous post, I selected the wrong property sheet in visual studio (selected release sheet for debug mode!)... Thank you for attending to it... <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Murray Cumming <<a href="mailto:murrayc@murrayc.com">murrayc@murrayc.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:45 +0530, Mohith Manoj wrote: > Hello, > I am developing a gtkmm (2.4) cross-platform application on Win32 > using MSVC2008 (v 9). My app has dependency on cairomm (installed > version 1.0). There is no problem compiling the application, however > once run in debug mode the application encounters a breakpoint as > described below > > > this is the code snippet where I create a cairo context for my custom > widget. </div>If you can provide a simple-as-possible compileable example then we can try to reproduce the problem. Are you using the official gtkmm Windows installer? -- Murray Cumming <a href="mailto:murrayc@murrayc.com">murrayc@murrayc.com</a> <a href="http://www.murrayc.com" target="_blank">www.murrayc.com</a> <a href="http://www.openismus.com" target="_blank">www.openismus.com</a> </blockquote></div>