windres

[Chris Sutcliffe]

I'm having problems where windres isn't honouring system headers.  For example I have in a local included file ("resource.h"):

#include <winver.h>
#include <winuser.h>
#include <commctrl.h>

#define IDD_SHUTDOWN            100
#define IDC_STATIC              101

#define IDC_LOGO                200
#define IDC_METHOD              201

#define IDB_LOGO                1000

I'm getting syntax errors from windres because SS_BITMAP isn't defined, despite it being in winuser.h.  I've tried adding '-I<MinGW64 system include dir>' but it didn't help.

[NightStrike]

What is your host system?

Can you use the -v option and post the entire output, including the full command line that you are using?

[Chris Sutcliffe]

Hey nightstrike,

Here's what I have:

[ironhead] 05/13/08 21:06:16.73
C:\source\emerge\trunk\Source\emergeLib>set PATH=C:\MinGW64\bin;%PATH%

[ironhead] 05/13/08 21:06:35.95
C:\source\emerge\trunk\Source\emergeLib>mingw32-make MINGW64=1 clean
del ..\.objs64\Release\emergeLib\*.o ..\.objs64\Release\emergeLib\*.res

[ironhead] 05/13/08 21:07:07.12
C:\source\emerge\trunk\Source\emergeLib>mingw32-make MINGW64=1
x86_64-pc-mingw32-g++ -Wall -pedantic -DEMERGELIB_EXPORTS -mno-cygwin -frtti -fexceptions -O2 -c mai
n.cpp -o ../.objs64/Release/emergeLib/main.o
main.cpp:79:1: warning: "INTERFACE" redefined
In file included from main.cpp:39:
c:\mingw64\bin\../lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-mingw32/4.4.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-mingw32/include/shlwapi.h:93
3:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
main.cpp: In function 'WINBOOL MinimizeAll(HWND__*, LPARAM)':
main.cpp:2159: warning: statement has no effect
x86_64-pc-mingw32-g++ -Wall -pedantic -DEMERGELIB_EXPORTS -mno-cygwin -frtti -fexceptions -O2 -c Shu
tdown.cpp -o ../.objs64/Release/emergeLib/Shutdown.o
x86_64-pc-mingw32-windres -O COFF -i emergeLib.rc -o ../.objs64/Release/emergeLib/emergeLib.res
x86_64-pc-mingw32-windres: emergeLib.rc:65: syntax error
mingw32-make: *** [../.objs64/Release/emergeLib/emergeLib.res] Error 1

[ironhead] 05/13/08 21:07:39.89
C:\source\emerge\trunk\Source\emergeLib>x86_64-pc-mingw32-windres --version
GNU windres (GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.20080420
Copyright 2007 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.

[ironhead] 05/13/08 21:10:33.54
C:\source\emerge\trunk\Source\emergeLib>x86_64-pc-mingw32-windres -v
Using `x86_64-pc-mingw32-gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED  -'
Using popen to read preprocessor output
^C

Line 65 of emergeLib.rc:

  CONTROL "",IDC_LOGO,"Static",SS_BITMAP,0,0,260,60

If I define SS_BITMAP in resource.h, like I mentioned above, the error goes away.  It just seems that <winuser.h> isn't being found (i.e. the system include directories aren't being searched).

[Chris Sutcliffe]

I solved the issue by adding:

#define _WINGDI_

to my resource files.

[SpiroH]

Thanks ir0nh34d!
After all these years the 'windres' not working problem is still there! That's a real shame and about time to fix it for good. Cheers!

[Icha]

Sorry to necro the thread but just in case somebody runs into the same issue. With my builds when my toolchain primary target is WIN64, the -m32 build will throw errors for res files, but not for the -m64 build. It's easy to fix though, I just use this custom script for the .rc file: $rescomp -Fpe-i386 -i $file -J rc -o $resource_output -O coff $res_includes