diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 42e505df..75a9249e 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "ExtendableGrids"
 uuid = "cfc395e8-590f-11e8-1f13-43a2532b2fa8"
-authors = ["Juergen Fuhrmann <juergen.fuhrmann@wias-berlin.de>", "Christian Merdon  <christian.merdon@wias-berlin.de>", "Johannes Taraz  <johannes.taraz@gmail.com>", "Patrick Jaap <patrick.jaap@wias-berlin.de>"]
 version = "1.14.2"
+authors = ["Juergen Fuhrmann <juergen.fuhrmann@wias-berlin.de>", "Christian Merdon  <christian.merdon@wias-berlin.de>", "Johannes Taraz  <johannes.taraz@gmail.com>", "Patrick Jaap <patrick.jaap@wias-berlin.de>"]
 
 [deps]
 AbstractTrees = "1520ce14-60c1-5f80-bbc7-55ef81b5835c"
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ SparseArrays = "2f01184e-e22b-5df5-ae63-d93ebab69eaf"
 StaticArrays = "90137ffa-7385-5640-81b9-e52037218182"
 StatsBase = "2913bbd2-ae8a-5f71-8c99-4fb6c76f3a91"
 UUIDs = "cf7118a7-6976-5b1a-9a39-7adc72f591a4"
+WeakDepHelpers = "7869a13a-7328-4bcf-a489-0f4bb64497c7"
 WriteVTK = "64499a7a-5c06-52f2-abe2-ccb03c286192"
 
 [weakdeps]
@@ -53,5 +54,6 @@ StatsBase = "0.34"
 TetGen = "1.5.1, 2"
 Triangulate = "2.3.2, 3"
 UUIDs = "1.6"
+WeakDepHelpers = "0.1.0"
 WriteVTK = "1.14"
 julia = "1.9"
diff --git a/src/ExtendableGrids.jl b/src/ExtendableGrids.jl
index be3d404a..81efa805 100644
--- a/src/ExtendableGrids.jl
+++ b/src/ExtendableGrids.jl
@@ -12,9 +12,22 @@ using Printf
 using Random
 using Dates
 using LinearAlgebra
+using WeakDepHelpers
 import Graphs
 
+const WEAKDEP_METHOD_ERROR_HINT_CACHE = WeakDepCache()
 
+function register_weakdep_cache(cache::Dict{Function, Tuple{Vararg{Symbol}}})
+    if isdefined(Base.Experimental, :register_error_hint)
+        Base.Experimental.register_error_hint(MethodError) do io, exc, argtypes, kwargs
+            WeakDepHelpers.method_error_hint_callback(cache,io,exc,argtypes,kwargs)
+        end
+    end
+end
+
+function __init__()
+    register_weakdep_cache(WEAKDEP_METHOD_ERROR_HINT_CACHE)
+end
 include("adjacency.jl")
 export Adjacency, VariableTargetAdjacency, FixedTargetAdjacency
 export atranspose, num_targets, num_sources, num_links, append!, max_num_targets_per_source
diff --git a/src/io.jl b/src/io.jl
index 553aa026..d8ee48f0 100644
--- a/src/io.jl
+++ b/src/io.jl
@@ -162,19 +162,12 @@ function simplexgrid(file::String; format = "", kwargs...)
 end
 
 function simplexgrid(file::String, ::Type{Val{:msh}}; kwargs...)
-    return try
-        simplexgrid_from_gmsh(file)
-    catch e
-        throw(ErrorException("Missing Gmsh extension. Add Gmsh.jl to your environment and import it to read msh files."))
-    end
+    simplexgrid_from_gmsh(file)
 end
 
 function simplexgrid(file::String, ::Type{Val{:geo}}; kwargs...)
-    return try
-        simplexgrid_from_gmsh(file)
-    catch e
-        throw(ErrorException("Missing Gmsh extension. Add Gmsh.jl to your environment and import it to read geo files."))
-    end
+    
+    simplexgrid_from_gmsh(file)
 end
 
 function simplexgrid(file::String, ::Type{Val{:sg}}; kwargs...)
@@ -272,7 +265,8 @@ function simplexgrid(file::String, ::Type{Val{:sg}}; kwargs...)
     return g
 end
 
-function simplexgrid_from_gmsh end
+@declare_method_is_in_extension WEAKDEP_METHOD_ERROR_HINT_CACHE simplexgrid_from_gmsh (:Gmsh,)
+# function simplexgrid_from_gmsh end
 
 function simplexgrid_to_gmsh end