Aren't Windows System Error popups meant to be disabled in Cygwin?

[René Berber]

On 1/31/2024 7:40 AM, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:

> Starting with this very trivial C program:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <zstd.h>
> 
> int main(void) {
>    printf("Zstandard v%d\n", ZSTD_versionNumber());
> }
> 
> and compiling with
> 
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -o test.exe test.c -lzstd
> 
> when I then run ./test.exe, I get the Windows critical-error-handler
> dialog stating "The code execution cannot proceed because
> libzstd-1.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this
> problem."
[snip]

x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc is a cross compiler, a.k.a. the Mingw compiler, 
not Cygwin's gcc.

It is quite correct for a cross compiler meant to produce Windows 
executables to do what you are seeing.  The executable is independent of 
Cygwin, i.e. doesn't use the Cygwin dll.
-- 
RB