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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:53:47 +1200
From: Danny Smith <dannysmith AT clear DOT net DOT nz>
Subject: RE: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing
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Dave Korn
> 
> On 30 August 2006 16:19, Pierre Baillargeon wrote:
> 
> > I've identified the reason why DLL don't show up: in the 
> startup code 
> > (winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc), in dll_crt0_0(), Win32's 
> SetErrorMode() is 
> > called to suppress all OS error dialogs. It's there since 1998 
> > according to the changelog, so it must not bother many people...
> 
>   It's a real, huge, massive problem, when an entirely 
> scripted and automated process such as a cron job suddenly 
> pops up a requester in the middle of the night that won't go 
> away until someone comes in the next day, logs in, and clicks 
> it away ...
> 

Have you ever tried running the gcc (or other large) testsuite on mingw
(or cygwin -mno-cygwin)?
I have a special crt2.o that I use for that which does the SetErrorMode
trick.

Similarly there is nothing to stop user code from turning SetErrorMode()
on again if you want it .

Danny


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