#140 Launch4j won't work any more

[Uwe Mock]

Launch4j stopped working today, giving me the following error message:

launch4j: Compiling resources
launch4j: /home/xxxx/bin/launch4j/bin/windres: preprocessing failed.
launch4j: Generated resource file...

launch4j: LANGUAGE 0, 1
2 RCDATA BEGIN "1.6.0\0" END
18 RCDATA BEGIN "1\0" END
30 RCDATA BEGIN "2\0" END
1 ICON DISCARDABLE "/home/xxxx/xxxx.ico"
21 RCDATA BEGIN "http://java.com/download\0" END
20 RCDATA BEGIN "32\0" END
101 RCDATA BEGIN "Beim Start des Programms ist ein Fehler aufgetreten.\0" END
102 RCDATA BEGIN "Das Programm wurde gemeinsam mit einer Java-Laufzeitumgebung ausgeliefert. Diese ist aber defekt oder fehlt ganz.\0" END
103 RCDATA BEGIN "Dieses Programm kann nur gestartet werden, wenn eine Java-Laufzeitumgebung installiert ist.\0" END
104 RCDATA BEGIN "In der Registry wird auf eine Java-Laufzeitumgebung verwiesen, die defekt ist oder gar nicht existiert.\0" END
17 RCDATA BEGIN "true\0" END

launch4j: net.sf.launch4j.ExecException: Exec failed (1): /home/xxxx/bin/launch4j/bin/windres --preprocessor=cat -J rc -O coff -F pe-i386 /tmp/launch4j4252501814162148942rc /tmp/launch4j2495107979749405766o

The build system is Kubuntu 14.04 64bit. I already tried to replace windres with a self-compiled version from the binutils package; with this executable, I get the message "Can't detect target endianness and architecture."

[Grzegorz Kowal]

Obviously something must have changed. Did you change the configuration file? Any system updates? You can try creating a resoure file with the content above (LANGUAGE....) and try running windres with the parameters as above and see if any particular error is reported.

[Uwe Mock]

Nothing has changed in my configuration, in my Eclipse setup or whatever. Just the usual os updates.
I have solved the problem now throug a hint I got in another posting. I installed the binutils-mingw-w64 package and linked /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld and /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres to ld and windres in the launch4j/bin directory.
Maybe launch4j should bring a configuration script that links these files rather than having binary files that might or might not work.

[Grzegorz Kowal]

Thanks for the info.