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Re: Windows Resource Scripts
- To: Mark Fitzgerald <mfitzger at elora dot math dot uwaterloo dot ca>
- Subject: Re: Windows Resource Scripts
- From: Jens Yllman <jens dot yllman at uniweb dot se>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:58:59 +0100
- CC: Timothy Legge <tlegge at fundy dot net>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
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- References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.981209112229.5715A-100000@elora.math.uwaterloo.ca>
I've not used this alot. But I've tried to include a version resource.
windres does not have any problem compiling it. And windows detects that
the file contains a version resource. But when windows tries to display
the info it is empty. Have you gotten this to work????
/Jens
Mark Fitzgerald wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Timothy Legge wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there any information available on how to create a Windows program that
> > uses a resource file.
>
> A little. The FAQ mentions that a COFF file can be produced from a textal
> RC file using 'windres'. Type 'windres --help' to get some basic info.
> Aside from taking a few minutes to get the command-line parameters right,
> it worked well for me. I used output for COFF, not RES.
>
> (Aside: what can I use RES files for with the cygwin tools?)
>
> > My application that compiles with Visual C++ 5.0 makes use of a menu and a
> > Dialog. Any ideas how to compile it with gnuwin32 gcc.
> >
> > Tim
>
> Once you have compiled your .rc file into a .coff file, then just add the
> .coff file to the set of object files to be linked together by the linker.
>
> That should be it.
>
> Mark
>
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