Subject: Re: bug#19813: 24.4; emacs crashes on exit

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 05:37:43 +0200

> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 16:25:15 -0500
> From: Test User <[email-masked]>
> 
>     What does the Windows Event Viewer say about these crashes (under
>     "Application")?
>     
> 
> Faulting application name: emacs.exe, version: 24.4.0.0, time stamp: 0x544a8d9a
> Faulting module name: libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp:
> 0x507d56df
> Exception code: 0x40000015
> Fault offset: 0x00016f62
> Faulting process id: 0xee4
> Faulting application start time: 0x01d043e155516507
> Faulting application path: C:\MinGW\local\bin\emacs.exe
> Faulting module path: C:\MinGW\bin\libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
> Report Id: 9ab40c92-afd4-11e4-81d7-00a0d1ad0b0b
> Faulting package full name: 
> Faulting package-relative application ID: 
> 
> On my Windows 8 system:
> 16/10/2012 07:45 119,296 libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
> 
> The dll does not contain any version information, but gcc --version
> prints 4.7.2.

Then this is a known issue, see etc/PROBLEMS, and also bug 19181.  In
a nutshell, you have a DLL that Emacs loads that depends on
libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll.  Find that dependent DLL and install another
binary of that DLL which doesn't have this dependency.