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

Inizia riproducendo il comando Windows PowerShell con un eseguibile nativo a cui manca la DLL collegata, quindi esamina come l’avvio del processo gestisce l’errore. Il lavoro è completato quando l’invocazione dell’eseguibile segnala un External System Error che identifica la DLL mancante invece di non produrre alcun output.