Dear Eli, [...] > > That's because Emacs already exited by that time. You need to catch > the moment when it crashes. > > The problem here is that you run the wrong program under the debugger: > runemacs.exe. You need to invoke emacs.exe instead. > > Please invoke Emacs under GDB like this: > > gdb c:/Programme/GNU/Emacs/bin/emacs.exe > (gdb) run -Q --eval=... Ok... Here is attached the log of the gdb sessione encoded in raw-text coding system, please feel free to ask me for any further step --- like setting break points, dumping some variable contents, and so on --- if it can help locate the problem. BR, Vincent.