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-rw-r--r--compat/mingw.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index ee8f3be..431e322 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)