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Re: errors coming from building from scratch
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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