[PATCH 2/2] Report errors when failing to launch the html browser in mingw.
- From
Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
- Date
- Mar 17, 2010, 15:20 UTC
- Message-ID
- <87aau7dkon.fsf@fox.patthoyts.tk>
The mingw function to launch the system html browser is silent if the target file does not exist leaving the user confused. Make it display something.
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net> --- compat/mingw.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index 9c10a4c..d6539ef 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -1548,6 +1548,7 @@ void mingw_open_html(const char *unixpath) const char *, const char *, const char *, INT); T ShellExecute; HMODULE shell32; + int r; shell32 = LoadLibrary("shell32.dll"); if (!shell32) @@ -1557,9 +1558,11 @@ void mingw_open_html(const char *unixpath) die("cannot run browser"); printf("Launching default browser to display HTML ...\n"); - ShellExecute(NULL, "open", htmlpath, NULL, "\\", 0); - + r = (int)ShellExecute(NULL, "open", htmlpath, NULL, "\\", SW_SHOWNORMAL); FreeLibrary(shell32); + if (r < 33) { + die("failed to launch browser for %.*s", MAX_PATH, unixpath); + } } int link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath)
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