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examples crash without a helpful error message when setup.bat isn't loaded

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Reproduce the crash on Windows 10 by running talker.exe or examples_rclcpp_minimal_publisher_lambda.exe without first calling local_setup.bat. Start from these example executables and determine how the missing setup is handled; done means the programs show a friendly error instead of the generic Windows crash dialog.

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Description

backlog enhancement

this might be a Windows-specific issue, but if you try to run talker.exe or examples_rclcpp_minimal_publisher_lambda.exe or basically anything (it seems?) without first calling local_setup.bat, Windows 10 pops up the generic "this program has stopped working" box. I'm not sure what the answer is, but it would be nicer to have a friendly error message instead.

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