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Subject: RE: no message or dialog when a DLL is missing
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:12:18 +0100
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On 30 August 2006 21:54, Danny Smith wrote:

> 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)?

  Nope!

> I have a special crt2.o that I use for that which does the SetErrorMode
> trick.

  Throws up a requester every time a testcase SEGVs?  Yow!

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

  Of course, but there's still an issue here why this case doesn't get a
proper ENOENT status in $? and an error message on stderr.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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