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 -- 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/
