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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/system/dyncalls.nim')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/system/dyncalls.nim | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/system/dyncalls.nim b/lib/system/dyncalls.nim index c8e251d1e..f1ff307da 100644 --- a/lib/system/dyncalls.nim +++ b/lib/system/dyncalls.nim @@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ proc nimLoadLibraryError(path: string) = stderr.rawWrite("\n") when not defined(nimDebugDlOpen) and not defined(windows): stderr.rawWrite("compile with -d:nimDebugDlOpen for more information\n") + when defined(windows) and defined(guiapp): + # Because console output is not shown in GUI apps, display error as message box: + const prefix = "could not load: " + var msg: array[1000, char] + copyMem(msg[0].addr, prefix.cstring, prefix.len) + copyMem(msg[prefix.len].addr, path.cstring, min(path.len + 1, 1000 - prefix.len)) + discard MessageBoxA(0, msg[0].addr, nil, 0) quit(1) proc procAddrError(name: cstring) {.noinline.} = |