From df245ed8e57cf9021b17ec744c102825ed9c3488 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silvio Traversaro <silvio@traversaro.it>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:30:26 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] sim_main: Print clear error in case CreateProcessA fails
 (#3104)

Signed-off-by: Silvio Traversaro <silvio@traversaro.it>
Co-authored-by: Addisu Z. Taddese <addisu@openrobotics.org>
(cherry picked from commit 08dc62d920ef842adff0797965f8fa84083f90ca)
---
 src/cmd/sim_main.cc | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/cmd/sim_main.cc b/src/cmd/sim_main.cc
index f3b2552413..215cc248d4 100644
--- a/src/cmd/sim_main.cc
+++ b/src/cmd/sim_main.cc
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ int launchProcess(
     if(!CreateProcessW(NULL, cmd_line, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0,
                       NULL, NULL, &si, &pi))
     {
+      gzerr << "Failure in creating process for command "
+            << command << std::endl;
       return -1;
     }