From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Need help with Perl/Tk
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fjrj5d$ndd$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00e601c83d9a$0cf54e40$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
Dave Korn wrote:
> On 13 December 2007 14:55, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>> (When it comes to DynaLoader you gotta learn to read the fine print
>>> and make intuitive leaps :-)
>> Yes but it did indeed state "No such file or directory...". Would it
>> be that hard for DynaLoader.pm to mention exactly which file it was
>> looking for?
> Yes, it would, because that information is not exposed to the
> application; you just call LoadLibrary, and if you get a file not
> found error back, there's no way to determine if it was the library
> DLL itself or one of the dependent DLLs that windows couldn't find.
Well then how about changing the error message to something as
nonsensical as "Unable to find this library, or a library on which this
one depends..."
--
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
All I want in life is a warm bed, and unlimited power.
--
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/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-13 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-13 11:26 Michael Kairys
2007-12-13 11:38 ` Reini Urban
2007-12-13 13:49 ` Michael Kairys
2007-12-13 11:52 ` Sisyphus
2007-12-13 13:44 ` Michael Kairys
2007-12-13 14:57 ` Andrew DeFaria
2007-12-13 15:08 ` Dave Korn
2007-12-13 15:32 ` Andrew DeFaria [this message]
2007-12-13 15:59 ` Dave Korn
2007-12-14 3:12 ` Andrew DeFaria
2007-12-14 10:20 ` Dave Korn
2007-12-13 15:23 ` Michael Kairys
2007-12-13 15:38 ` Andrew DeFaria
2007-12-13 23:57 ` Sisyphus
2007-12-14 1:38 ` Reini Urban
2007-12-14 2:13 ` Michael Kairys
2007-12-14 20:52 ` Michael Kairys
2007-12-17 0:48 ` Jason Pearce
2007-12-14 3:15 ` Andrew DeFaria
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='fjrj5d$ndd$1@ger.gmane.org' \
--to=andrew@defaria.com \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).