[Mingw-users] event log message file (*.mc and mc.exe)

[A. A. El H. <eh...@co...>]

Is there a bintool that will allow me to create a resource
file from a message file to be used for event logging through
ReportEvent.

I thought windres is supposed to take a message file and
compile it into an *.rc file but it does not.

I have a file msg.mc that contains:

MessageId=0x0
Severity=Error
SymbolicName=MSG_FATAL_ERROR
Language=English
%1
.


windres -i msg.mc -o msg.rc returns an error

However the following works:

mc msg.mc [ this will produce msg.rc]
windres -o msg.o msg.rc 
and I can used msg.o to register my events.


The problem is that I dont have mc.exe (part of MSVC?) on 
all the build machines and rather use what comes with 
mingw, bintools, ...

Any ideas?

Thanks.

--Aba