1.0 idea - ntdll - add a messagebox for missing dlls

Steven Edwards winehacker at gmail.com
Sun Apr 27 01:37:34 CDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  * have start.exe set an environment variable saying "show graphical error box
>  >  on dll load failure", and clear that before calling executed apps' WinMain()
>  >  (easy)
>
>  So something like start.exe.so in Unix mode would set a variable like
>  VERSBOSE_USERDEBUG or which then we could query in the loader using
>  RtlQueryEnvironmentVariable_U or something that would trigger the
>  MessageBox from the example code I already wrote in ntdll?

So that worked. Comments are welcome!

-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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