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| -rw-r--r-- | compat/mingw.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index ee8f3be5b2..431e32265d 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -1417,6 +1417,7 @@ 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) @@ -1426,9 +1427,12 @@ 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); + /* see the MSDN documentation referring to the result codes here */ + if (r <= 32) { + die("failed to launch browser for %.*s", MAX_PATH, unixpath); + } } int link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath) |