* windres broken
@ 2017-01-07 4:10 Steven Penny
2017-01-07 13:47 ` Ken Brown
2017-01-07 14:01 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
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From: Steven Penny @ 2017-01-07 4:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Something is wrong with windres:
$ windres myapp.rc -o myapp.res
Usage: windres [option(s)] [input-file] [output-file]
The options are:
-i --input=<file> Name input file
-o --output=<file> Name output file
-J --input-format=<format> Specify input format
The syntax above is shown here:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/windres.html
Yet the command just prints usage instead of doing the thing. This command
works:
windres myapp.rc myapp.res
However this shouldnt be needed as described by the man:
-i filename
The name of the input file. If this option is not used, then
windres will use the first non-option argument as the input file
name.
This is a problem because Git itself uses the "input -o output" syntax, which
should be working:
http://github.com/git/git/blob/e05806d/Makefile#L1816-L1819
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2017-01-07 4:10 windres broken Steven Penny
@ 2017-01-07 13:47 ` Ken Brown
2017-01-07 18:54 ` Steven Penny
2017-01-07 14:01 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
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From: Ken Brown @ 2017-01-07 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 1/6/2017 11:10 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> Something is wrong with windres:
>
> $ windres myapp.rc -o myapp.res
> Usage: windres [option(s)] [input-file] [output-file]
> The options are:
> -i --input=<file> Name input file
> -o --output=<file> Name output file
> -J --input-format=<format> Specify input format
>
> The syntax above is shown here:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/windres.html
>
> Yet the command just prints usage instead of doing the thing. This command
> works:
>
> windres myapp.rc myapp.res
>
> However this shouldnt be needed as described by the man:
>
> -i filename
> The name of the input file. If this option is not used, then
> windres will use the first non-option argument as the input file
> name.
>
> This is a problem because Git itself uses the "input -o output" syntax, which
> should be working:
>
> http://github.com/git/git/blob/e05806d/Makefile#L1816-L1819
That syntax works for me. Are you sure you're using Cygwin's windres?
Ken
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* Re: windres broken
2017-01-07 4:10 windres broken Steven Penny
2017-01-07 13:47 ` Ken Brown
@ 2017-01-07 14:01 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
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From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker @ 2017-01-07 14:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Am 07.01.2017 um 05:10 schrieb Steven Penny:
> Something is wrong with windres:
>
> $ windres myapp.rc -o myapp.res
> Usage: windres [option(s)] [input-file] [output-file]
> The options are:
> -i --input=<file> Name input file
> -o --output=<file> Name output file
> -J --input-format=<format> Specify input format
What version of windres is that? That same command works just fine,
here (from package binutils-2.25-4 on cygwin64).
> The syntax above is shown here:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/windres.html
That's just an example, and for actual documentation it points to GNU
binutils documentation. So if anything, this example could be wrong,
but if there's really something wrong, you should take this up with the
binutils people.
> Yet the command just prints usage instead of doing the thing.
Well, strictly speaking, according to that syntax, the above command
_is_ wrong. -o myapp.res is an option, and as such it should have come
_before_ the [input-file] argument, myapp.rc. But like I said, the
problem does not reproduce here.
> This command works:
>
> windres myapp.rc myapp.res
Well, FWIW that one does follow the syntax.
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