On 12 Nov 2008, at 17:31, ceo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
So, that error message about a missing DLL, when it's really a "sub"
DLL that is missing...
Is that something in PHP source that could be fixed to specify WHICH
dll is really missing?
Or is that just Windows being stupid?
Mr. Spock has calculated that a quick hack change to that error
message to be more specific would save approximately 3,141.59 man-
hours per week...
:-)
I'm happy to put it in bugs.php.net as a feature request, if it's
actually IN php, but don't want to waste the resources to mark it as
junk if there's no way PHP could do that.
It's been a while since I've done Windows development, but IIRC PHP
will only be able to tell that the DLL could not be loaded, I don't
believe Windows exposes exactly what the problem was. It could
probably be done by examining the external symbols on the DLL and
manually checking for the presence of those DLLs in the path, but that
seems like overkill.
While the accuracy of this error message is not great there's enough
info out there for it to be a short-lived issue for most people making
the effort required to improve it better spent on other problems.
-Stut
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