c++ - Can the "Application Error" dialog box be disabled?

Question

I am using Hudson as a continuous integration server to test C/C++ code. Unfortunatly, I have a bug somewhere that causes memory corruption, so on some Windows machines I will sometimes get a "Application Error" dialog box explaining that an instruction referenced memory that could not be read. This dialog box pops up and basically hangs the test run, as it requires manual intervention.

Is there a way to prevent this dialog box from appearing, so that the test run simply fails and is reported as such in Hudson?

Is it possible to automatically generate a minidump instead of showing the dialog?

Answer 1

1. Use "Disable error reporting", as Mr. Gently suggests. See also this PC World article.
2. If you happen to have MS Visual Studio on your build machine, it will catch Application Errors and pop up a dialog box. To disable these dialogs (and also the Just-In-Time Debugging feature of Visual Studio), run the command drwtsn32.exe -i to set Dr. Watson as the default system debugger. Dr. Watson will generate a core dump and silently exit. (See this Microsoft Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q121434/.)