#128 .exe Properties missing when launch4j is run on MAC OS X

[Code Buddy]

Using Launch4j 3.1.0-beta2 on the MAC (OS X 10.8.5) results in some (most) properties missing in the .exe that is produced. I've attached a screen shot showing the details of two .exe's produced using the same version of lauch4j. One created using Windows 7 (that has the details, the one on the left) and the other produce on the Mac. The config file used was identical.

[Grzegorz Kowal]

It might be a problem somehow related to windres, this is the basic difference between the MAC and windows distributions. Perhaps you can try a newer version than 2.22 ?

[Code Buddy]

Hi Grzegorz,

Thanks very much for taking a look at this. I've just had a go as follows:

git clone git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git

which was at 29361eee1499fa208baf06df5c6aa1ef4c1b2516

I used gcc 4.7 from mac ports to compile

export CC=cc-mp-4.7
./configure --target=i686-pc-mingw32
make

which produced:

./binutils/windres --version
GNU windres (GNU Binutils) 2.24.51.20140326
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.

And....it worked! All the expected info was in the executables details tab.

[Grzegorz Kowal]

Hi,

Great news, can you add the binary as an attachment to this ticket? I'll replace it in the MAC package.

Thanks,
Grzegorz

[Code Buddy]

No worries :-) Looks like the mac version was using 2.21.53.20110804, where as the working version on windows was using 2.22. The attached version is 2.24.51.20140326.

Any idea when you'll be doing a release with this in? (Just noticed you released 3.2 a couple of days ago!)

[Grzegorz Kowal]

The plan is a week or two, if I have no other changes till then I'll release just that - it's quite important. Thanks for the binary!