Windres problem with manifests

Windres problem with manifests

[Duft Markus]

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Hi all!

We have ported an existing project to using a UNIX like build mechanism
under Interix, using parity as compiler
(http://www.sf.net/projects/parity). Parity is the successor of WGCC,
and also uses Microsoft's tools in the background (cl.exe, link.exe).

This existing Project used to use Microsoft resource tools rc.exe and
cvtres.exe to create resource files. I now wanted to use windres to do
the same task, so i avoid using microsoft tools directly.

I have a working windres, from which i don't know where the h*** i got
it from:

	mduft parity.new $ windres --version
	GNU windres 2.9.1
	Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the
terms of
	the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no
warranty.

Now the problem is, that on a fresh set-up box, this isn't there, so i
must have installed it sometime ago, but can't remember. Now i'm
building recent binutils versions (2.16 and 2.18) from source, and
enable windres with a small patch for the binutils/configure to include
it on interix.

The resulting windres seems to work, and produces .res and .o files
without problems - but: the resulting files are damaged! I stripped down
a little test case (attached) which shows, that embedding manifest files
as resource doesn't seem to work! See file "instructions" to see how to
produce the error i see (while linking the resulting object).

I could always step back and use microsofts tools for this, but still
windres would be better, i think.

Any comments and/or help would be nice.

Cheers, Markus

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Re: Windres problem with manifests

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Markus,

> I have a working windres, from which i don't know where the h*** i got
> it from:
> 
> 	mduft parity.new $ windres --version
> 	GNU windres 2.9.1

Wow, that is old.

> The resulting windres seems to work, and produces .res and .o files
> without problems - but: the resulting files are damaged! I stripped down
> a little test case (attached) which shows, that embedding manifest files
> as resource doesn't seem to work! See file "instructions" to see how to
> produce the error i see (while linking the resulting object).

Unfortunately that test case assumes that I have cl.exe and link.exe and that I 
can run them on my local machine...  (Well I could run them. but I certainly do 
not have them).

So...
   1. What is the error that you are seeing ?

   2. If you compare an object file produced by the 2.9.1 windres and an object
      file produced by the 2.18 windres how do they differ ?

   3. Your testcase includes a Makefile and sources to build a client and a dll,
      but neither of these are referenced in the "instructions" file.  Are they
      needed at all ?

   4. Have you tried a windres built from the mainline of the binutils sources
      in the CVS repository ?

Cheers
   Nick