first of all thx for the shown interest
the compiler is mingw and the crash occurs in the very beginning of the application, IDE doesn't appear on the screan, only the tips one in the right bottom corner.
At home I tested on another PC on which winXP sp2 is installed and everything works fine...
so how may I understand if a DLL is missing? shouldn't be the error a DLL window allert more than a segmentation fault?
tnx again