Pidgin won't start up, getting an error

Lardalish

Ok, I installed Pidgin and the installation went smoothly, I needed to update something so it uninstalled the old one and installed the new one and everything seemed to be fine. But when I tried to start pidgin I got these two errors.

Pidgin.exe - Entry Point Not Found
The procedure entry point g_thread_gettime could not be located in the dynamic link library libglib-2.0-0.dll.

Error
Error loading pidgin.dll.
Error: (127) The specified procedure could not be found.

So anyone know what I can do? Trillian is annoying me and apparently Pidgin has everything trillian does and more stuff, so I figured Id switch. Buuuuut Im gettin the errors so yeah.

Richard M. Nixon

Try uninstalling it again and deleting anything that showed up in your My Documents and/or your Program Files (or wherever you installed it). Restart and reinstall and see if that helps. I haven't had this specific problem, so that may not solve it.

If you don't mind taking a while to set it up, I would recommend giving Miranda a try (www.miranda-im.org). It's got pretty much the same functionality as Pidgin but is far more customisable. The caveat is that nigh-infinite-customisability can require a whole lot of tweaking to get it to do what you want.

Lardalish

Nope, reinstalled and restarted and Im still getting that error.

Well, if noone has any idea what to do to fix it by the time I get back from class I might try that miranda one.

vonPoonBurGer

Your error looks a lot like this one. The fix in that thread was to reinstall GTK+, which is a collection of libraries that Pidgin uses heavily. Perhaps something changed, removed or locked your GTK+ DLLs. Install any apps recently that use GTK+ or GLib? I know the different GTK+ installers between Gimp and Pidgin have had trouble playing nice in the past. I can't seem to find a standalone GTK+ installer, most Windows apps that use GTK+ have their own install routine (which is probably part of the problem).

Lardalish

vonPoonBurGer wrote: »

Your error looks a lot like this one. The fix in that thread was to reinstall GTK+, which is a collection of libraries that Pidgin uses heavily. Perhaps something changed, removed or locked your GTK+ DLLs. Install any apps recently that use GTK+ or GLib? I know the different GTK+ installers between Gimp and Pidgin have had trouble playing nice in the past. I can't seem to find a standalone GTK+ installer, most Windows apps that use GTK+ have their own install routine (which is probably part of the problem).

Ok, Im not very software savvy so most of that is just jibber jabber to me, but I did have to install a new GTK whatever thing, it came up during the installation and asked me if I wanted to install the new version and I said yeah and that seemed to go allright.

Ill go over that link when I get back from class (posting from a break at the moment) but yeah, thanks.