about windres

about windres

[Michael Foo]

Hi,

I create the following .rc:
#include <windows.h>

2 ICON "icons/Ampempty.ico"

1 VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION 1,1,0,0
PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,0
FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
{
  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"{
    BLOCK "0x0409"{
      VALUE "Comment", "This is testing program"
      VALUE "CompanyName","Imaginary Company"
      VALUE "FileDescription", "Experiment program"
      VALUE "FileVersion", "Build Ver1.0"
      VALUE "LegalCopyright","Copyright© foo"
      VALUE "OriginalFilename","foo.exe"
      VALUE "ProductName", "FOO"
      VALUE "ProductVersion", "P2D2"
    }
  }
}

I used windres to compile this script:
windres foo.rc -O coff -o foo.res

Then I compile my c source(foo.c) :
gcc -s -mwindows foo.res md5.o foo.c -mno-cygwin -e
_mainCRTStartup -o epos.exe

However, I only see the icon to my executable. But when I right-
clicked to view the property of the executable. Under the Version
tab of the Property, I see no info printed and totally blank. Why is it
so? Is it my .rc file wrong or my compilation is not linking to the res
file?

   Thank you in advance. :)

Regards
Michael

RE: about windres

[Rupert Wood]

Michael Foo wrote:

>     BLOCK "0x0409"{
:
> However, I only see the icon to my executable. But when I right-
> clicked to view the property of the executable. Under the Version 
> tab of the Property, I see no info printed and totally blank.

You've confused the syntax of BLOCK: that should be

    BLOCK "040904B0"

or similar: 0409 represents US English and 04B0 is 1200 decimal for
Unicode character set (default for Win32 resources).


For reference/comparison, here's a (US English) VS_VERSION_INFO block
autogenerated by MSVC6. It's not obvious to me why they've explicitly
null-terminated every string but all the .rc files I've seen do it.

#ifndef _MAC
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Version
//

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
 FILEVERSION 1,0,0,1
 PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,1
 FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
#ifdef _DEBUG
 FILEFLAGS 0x1L
#else
 FILEFLAGS 0x0L
#endif
 FILEOS 0x4L
 FILETYPE 0x1L
 FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
BEGIN
    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "040904B0"
        BEGIN
            VALUE "CompanyName", "\0"
            VALUE "FileDescription", "Test MFC Application\0"
            VALUE "FileVersion", "1, 0, 0, 1\0"
            VALUE "InternalName", "Test\0"
            VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright (C) 2002\0"
            VALUE "LegalTrademarks", "\0"
            VALUE "OriginalFilename", "Test.EXE\0"
            VALUE "ProductName", "Test Application\0"
            VALUE "ProductVersion", "1, 0, 0, 1\0"
        END
    END
    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
    END
END

#endif    // !_MAC

about windres

[Michael Foo]

Hi,

I create the following .rc file:
#include <windows.h>

2 ICON "icons/Ampempty.ico"

1 VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION 1,1,0,0
PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,0
FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
{
  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"{
    BLOCK "0x0409"{
      VALUE "Comment", "This is testing program"
      VALUE "CompanyName","Imaginary Company"
      VALUE "FileDescription", "Experiment program"
      VALUE "FileVersion", "Build Ver1.0"
      VALUE "LegalCopyright","Copyright© foo"
      VALUE "OriginalFilename","foo.exe"
      VALUE "ProductName", "FOO"
      VALUE "ProductVersion", "P2D2"
    }
  }
}

I used windres to compile this script:
windres foo.rc -O coff -o foo.res

Then I compile my c source(foo.c) :
gcc -mwindows foo.res -mno-cygwin -o epos.exe md5.o foo.c

However, I only see the icon to my executable. But when I right-
clicked to view the property of the executable. Under the Version
tab of the Property, I see no info printed and totally blank. Why is it
so? Is it my .rc file wrong or my compilation is not linking to the res
file?

   Thank you in advance. :)

Regards
Michael

About windres.....

[Michael Foo]

Hi,

Hi,

I create the following .rc file:
#include <winver.h>
#include <windows.h>

2 ICON "icons/Ampempty.ico"

1 VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION 1,1,0,0
PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,0
FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
{
  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"{
    BLOCK "0x0409"{
      VALUE "Comment", "This is testing program"
      VALUE "CompanyName","Imaginary Company"
      VALUE "FileDescription", "Experiment program"
      VALUE "FileVersion", "Build Ver1.0"
      VALUE "LegalCopyright","Copyright© foo"
      VALUE "OriginalFilename","foo.exe"
      VALUE "ProductName", "FOO"
      VALUE "ProductVersion", "P2D2"
    }
  }
}

I used windres to compile this script:
windres foo.rc -O coff -o foo.res

Then I compile my c source(foo.c) :
gcc -mwindows foo.res -mno-cygwin -o epos.exe md5.o foo.c

However, I only see the icon to my executable. But when I right-
clicked to view the property of the executable. Under the Version
tab of the Property, I see no info printed and totally blank. Why is it
so? Is it my .rc file wrong or my compilation is not linking to the res
file?

   Thank you in advance. :)

Regards
Michael

About windres....

[Michael Foo]

Hi,

I create the following .rc file:
#include <winver.h>
#include <windows.h>

2 ICON "icons/Ampempty.ico"

1 VERSIONINFO
FILEVERSION 1,1,0,0
PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,0
FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
{
  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"{
    BLOCK "0x0409"{
      VALUE "Comment", "This is testing program"
      VALUE "CompanyName","Imaginary Company"
      VALUE "FileDescription", "Experiment program"
      VALUE "FileVersion", "Build Ver1.0"
      VALUE "LegalCopyright","Copyright© foo"
      VALUE "OriginalFilename","foo.exe"
      VALUE "ProductName", "FOO"
      VALUE "ProductVersion", "P2D2"
    }
  }
}

I used windres to compile this script:
windres foo.rc -O coff -o foo.res

Then I compile my c source(foo.c) :
gcc -mwindows foo.res -mno-cygwin -o epos.exe md5.o foo.c

However, I only see the icon to my executable. But when I right-
clicked to view the property of the executable. Under the Version
tab of the Property, I see no info printed and totally blank. Why is it
so? Is it my .rc file wrong or my compilation is not linking to the res
file?

   Thank you in advance. :)

Regards
Michael