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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
