Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Douglas Steele]

In message <3.0.1.32.19980717134208.006add8c@pophost>, Simon Crase
<simon@icpdd.neca.nec.com.au> writes
>So I am using lrc to do my res file, then making an object file with
>res2coff.  This came from a guy called Pedro A. Aranda, paag@tid.es and -
>according to the rlease notes - it was developed originally with lcc-win-32.

Unfortunately this happens.  Have you come across it before ?

(/R-0.61.3/src/gnuwin32)$ lrc -i/Mingw32/i386-mingw32/include wincons.rc
(/R-0.61.3/src/gnuwin32)$ res2coff -i wincons.rc -o wincons.o
C:\USR\BIN\BIN2\RES2COFF.EXE :Error in RES32 file format in 'wincons.rc'
[exited with 1]

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Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Douglas Steele]

In message < x2af65cz51.fsf@biostat.ku.dk >, Peter Dalgaard BSA
<p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes
>If you
>include <Windows32/Defines.h> instead of <windows.h>, all seems to be
>well [as proven by my standard torture test: It starts up and runs
>plot(1:10)...].
I'll try it, thanks.

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Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Douglas Steele <Douglas@dsteele.demon.co.uk> writes:

> 
> In message <Pine.SUN.3.93.980717095438.27332A-100000@modi.xraylith.wisc.
> edu>, Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes
> >Douglas, why not just use the cygwin32 version? All you need is windres
> >and cygwinb19.dll, right? (of course I haven't personally tested this,
> >so don't know for sure).
> Tried it.
> First checked windres worked OK on full cygwin32 installation.
> Then replaced Mingw32 windres with cygwin32 windres and cygwinb19.dll
> ... same problem, rc file dumped to screen.
> As far as I can make out, its the Mingw32 cpp.exe thats the common
> factor here.

I just checked out whether I could cross-compile the R-0.61.3 sources
from Linux, and lo and behold:

$ PATH=~/mingw-cross/i386-mingw32/bin/:$PATH make
windres  -i wincons.rc -o res.o 
windres:
/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/include/stdarg.h:70:
parse error
cpp: output pipe has been closed
make: *** [res.o] Error 1

Apparently, windres balks at typedef constructions in stuff included
via <windows.h>. The problem could well be just that w95 is not
handling the death of the receiving end of a pipe gracefully, but the
real solution is to prevent it from dying in the first place. If you
include <Windows32/Defines.h> instead of <windows.h>, all seems to be
well [as proven by my standard torture test: It starts up and runs
plot(1:10)...].

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Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Sam Holden]

Douglas Steele writes:
>In message <Pine.SUN.3.93.980717095438.27332A-100000@modi.xraylith.wisc.
>edu>, Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes
>>Douglas, why not just use the cygwin32 version? All you need is windres
>>and cygwinb19.dll, right? (of course I haven't personally tested this,
>>so don't know for sure).
>Tried it.
>First checked windres worked OK on full cygwin32 installation.
>Then replaced Mingw32 windres with cygwin32 windres and cygwinb19.dll
>... same problem, rc file dumped to screen.
>As far as I can make out, its the Mingw32 cpp.exe thats the common
>factor here.
>
>-- 
>Douglas

There's a replacement for cpp.exe for mingw32 that should be available
whereever mingw32 is. It exists because the cpp in mingw32 doesn't find
include files or something like that.

I haven't tried it, so I'm not sure if that's the problem, for all I
know you might be using the 'fixed' one. But if not, then that's worth a
try.

Sam
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Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Earnie Boyd]

Recently I've been using LRC which comes with Jacob Navia's LCC and
can be found at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32 .

You could also find RC by MS in the SDK downloads from MSDN.  I don't
know which specific package though.

---Douglas Steele <ds@dsteele.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone suggest an alternative for windres on ecgs Mingw32.
> On some Win95 setups it fails because when it does a popen it dumps
the
> res file to the screen instead of passing it to gcc.  Problem,
according
> to Mumit, is due not to windres, but to various Win95 DLL's which are
> used by Mingw32.
> 
> 
> It was suggested to me that I try to use windres compiled with djgpp
> ftp://sirio.stat.unipd.it/pub/misc and this compiles OK.  Even links
OK.
> Trouble is that I get a runtime error
> (system crash with blue screen
> Fatal Exception 0E at 0137:BFF9A07C
> then
> R incurred invalid page fault in module <unknown> at bffb:00080020)
> 
> Presumably an incompatible windres.
> 
> 
> 
> So, can anyone suggest an alternative to windres for Mingw32 ecgs ?
> (Unfortunately, I do not have the computing resources or experience to
> fix the popen problem in Mingw32 directly)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Douglas Steele <ds@dsteele.demon.co.uk> writes:


> Can anyone suggest an alternative for windres on ecgs Mingw32.
> On some Win95 setups it fails because when it does a popen it dumps the
> res file to the screen instead of passing it to gcc.  Problem, according
> to Mumit, is due not to windres, but to various Win95 DLL's which are
> used by Mingw32.
> 
> 
> It was suggested to me that I try to use windres compiled with djgpp
> ftp://sirio.stat.unipd.it/pub/misc and this compiles OK.  Even links OK.
> Trouble is that I get a runtime error
> (system crash with blue screen
> Fatal Exception 0E at 0137:BFF9A07C
> then
> R incurred invalid page fault in module <unknown> at bffb:00080020)
> 
> Presumably an incompatible windres.
> 

The rumors I've heard say that the problems occur with W95 OSR*1*, but
not earlier or later versions and that it works with binutils 2.9.1...


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Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Mumit Khan]

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Douglas Steele wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone suggest an alternative for windres on ecgs Mingw32.
> On some Win95 setups it fails because when it does a popen it dumps the
> res file to the screen instead of passing it to gcc.  Problem, according
> to Mumit, is due not to windres, but to various Win95 DLL's which are
> used by Mingw32.

Here's the problem Douglas is referring to:

  Windres calls the CPP (C pre-processor) using popen and simply reads the
  standard output of cpp for the pre-processed resource description. Now,
  we run into problems on the following systems:
  
  1. CRTDLL (certain versions)on Win95: popen messes up the standard
     output/error of the process it's running and the output goes to the
     screen instead.
  
  2. MSVCRT or MSVCR40 on WinNT (possibly on W95, but not tested yet): You
     get some bizarre error from popen that says 'disk is full' or some 
     such rubbish. This *does* work with MSVCRT20.DLL however. Now, the
     same test code works with MSVC++ 4.0, so there is some "magic" that 
     mingw32 startup is missing that MSVC++ 4.0 is doing to achieve this.
  
The popen problem has been discussed in this mailing list (search the
archives) with no apparent resolution. I was planning to write a simple
and minimal replacement for popen that would get around this, but no time
yet. Do I hear someone just volunteer?

Douglas, why not just use the cygwin32 version? All you need is windres
and cygwinb19.dll, right? (of course I haven't personally tested this,
so don't know for sure).

Regards,
Mumit

ps: Douglas, apologies for not responding to your earlier email, but life
is rather hectic these days.

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Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Douglas Steele]

In message <Pine.SUN.3.93.980717095438.27332A-100000@modi.xraylith.wisc.
edu>, Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes
>Douglas, why not just use the cygwin32 version? All you need is windres
>and cygwinb19.dll, right? (of course I haven't personally tested this,
>so don't know for sure).
The port that I am working on has some rather large makefiles which do
work with ecgs-Mingw32.  I did briefly try getting them to work using
cygwin32 and got some of the smaller ones to work OK.  Perhaps I will
try again though.

>ps: Douglas, apologies for not responding to your earlier email, but life
>is rather hectic these days.
No problem, same with me.


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Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Douglas Steele]

In message <Pine.SUN.3.93.980717095438.27332A-100000@modi.xraylith.wisc.
edu>, Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes
>Douglas, why not just use the cygwin32 version? All you need is windres
>and cygwinb19.dll, right? (of course I haven't personally tested this,
>so don't know for sure).
Tried it.
First checked windres worked OK on full cygwin32 installation.
Then replaced Mingw32 windres with cygwin32 windres and cygwinb19.dll
... same problem, rc file dumped to screen.
As far as I can make out, its the Mingw32 cpp.exe thats the common
factor here.

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WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95

[Douglas Steele]

Hi,

Can anyone suggest an alternative for windres on ecgs Mingw32.
On some Win95 setups it fails because when it does a popen it dumps the
res file to the screen instead of passing it to gcc.  Problem, according
to Mumit, is due not to windres, but to various Win95 DLL's which are
used by Mingw32.


It was suggested to me that I try to use windres compiled with djgpp
ftp://sirio.stat.unipd.it/pub/misc and this compiles OK.  Even links OK.
Trouble is that I get a runtime error
(system crash with blue screen
Fatal Exception 0E at 0137:BFF9A07C
then
R incurred invalid page fault in module <unknown> at bffb:00080020)

Presumably an incompatible windres.



So, can anyone suggest an alternative to windres for Mingw32 ecgs ?
(Unfortunately, I do not have the computing resources or experience to
fix the popen problem in Mingw32 directly)





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