On Win32, Perl programs running on ActiveState Perl may pop up a dialogue box under certain circumstances, for example:

• Memory Fault (typically from within compiled library functions)
• Non-terminating recursion

In this cases, the program stops and the user needs to click away the message box. This causes problems if the Perl program is just one part of a Batch, especially if the batch is supposed to run unattended and nobody is near to click away the message box.

Is it possible to compile Perl on Windows in a way that on a program fault, it just terminates (maybe with dumping core), as a reasonable behaviour would be in any real operating system? Or is it possible to tell Windows when starting the program, that it should not pop-up message boxes?