From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20068 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2017 13:47:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 20055 invoked by uid 89); 7 Jan 2017 13:47:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Steven, penny, Yet, Penny X-HELO: limerock03.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock03.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.243) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 07 Jan 2017 13:47:36 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id v07DlXMv029129 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2017 08:47:33 -0500 Received: from [172.20.1.43] (rrcs-97-78-142-195.se.biz.rr.com [97.78.142.195]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id v07DlWm4004860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2017 08:47:33 -0500 Subject: Re: windres broken To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <63dfbb31-3cf1-c5a9-059a-4aa78fa7fcfc@cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2017 13:47:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-01/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 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= Name input file > -o --output= Name output file > -J --input-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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple