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Date:	Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:25:42 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: errors coming from building from scratch
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On Apr  6 12:08, Edward S. Peschko wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:54:02PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr  6 11:43, Edward S. Peschko wrote:
> > > I don't see why cygwin could internalize this behavior and provide a consistant way
> > > of displaying linking errors via text rather than annoying popups..
> > 
> > Since it has nothing to do with Cygwin, perhaps?  When an application
> > is linked against a DLL, the loader process is a Windows internal
> > thingy.
> 
> but's that's the issue - rxvt *does* do this correctly. As does strace. When you get a 
> 'can't load X server' or other file error, it comes to the console not to a popup.

There's an important difference: rxvt and strace are not linked against
the DLLs.  They try loading at runtime using dlopen().

Corinna

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