Running win32 application from shell "exits silently" but in reality crashes on load

So I ran into an issue where an application unexpectedly would no longer launch when called directly from the shell, i.e. ".\appname.exe"

After troubleshooting for a bit with my trusty old friend Process Monitor, I could see the process opening and closing down again, looking at the Process Exit event, I saw the exit code of -1073741515 (aka. 0xC0000135, aka. STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND)

That was a quite easy fix, but it nagged me that I got no indication of the failure, in any other circumstance (running from cmd, double-clicking in explorer, run or even in powershell with Start-Process) a message would pop up stating a DLL was missing, and which one it was.

(I don't know if this issue extends to Linux/MacOS, or even if it can affect those platform)

Steps to reproduce

- First and foremost, a win32(native) application is needed with a linked library that's missing
- PS > .\path\to\executable.exe

Expected behavior

External System Error prompt

Actual behavior

No Output

Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      6.2.3
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    6.2.3
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.18362
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Start by reproducing the Windows PowerShell command with a native executable whose linked DLL is missing, then inspect how the process launch handles the failure. Done means invoking the executable reports an External System Error identifying the missing DLL instead of producing no output.