Re: [Mingw-users] Resource compiler suitable for cross-platform?

[Jean-Claude G. <jc....@vi...>]

Ah! Windres!
That's what i was looking for.
Although from what you say, it may not be possible.
I just thought that since the resource compiler can build .RES files
that it might have functions to read resources from them, and hopefully
those could be cross-platfom.
Does anyone have any info on that?

Thanks for the info.


On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:28, Mikael Aronsson wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I don't think there are any functions in MinGW to handle resources, this is
> all done by calling win32 api functions, so there is no source code
> available for those, even though there is a free resource compiler available
> (windres I belive) as an alternative to MS rc.exe.
> 
> Resources work a bit different than on the old 16 bit days, today all
> strings in a .res file are in unicode format, and you cannot replace the res
> portion of an exe, you have to use the linker to "relink" the application to
> get the resources into the exe file, but Windows NT and later has API
> functions to both access and replace/create new resources.
> 
> Mikael
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jean-Claude Gervais" <jc....@vi...>
> To: <min...@li...>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Resource compiler suitable for cross-platform?
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 09:28, Mikael Aronsson wrote:
> > > .RC files are only supported on win32, and all the resource are loaded
> using
> > > a win32 specific API, but it would be possible to make some kind of
> > > "resource" management that works cross platform, but I don't know of any
> > > working solution in existence, some GUI's like Fltk and FOX save
> "resources"
> > > as binary data in the executable. For example FOX has a tool that
> converts a
> > > any file into a .c/.h file with a byte array representing the file
> contents.
> >
> > Hi Mikael!
> >
> > I understand.
> > I expected that that would be the case, but what I am wondering is this;
> > are the resource functions grouped enough so they could be compiled
> > separately, and if so, are they generic enough so they would compile on
> > other platforms?
> >
> > I'm pretty sure many programmers out there are in the same situation I
> > described and would find it really useful to be able to manipulate
> > resources on platforms other than Windows.
> >
> > The biggest problem I can foresee is that resources must usually be
> > bound to the executable.
> >
> > This may pose the greatest problem on other platforms, because
> > executables tend to have very different formats on other platforms.
> >
> > I wrote (many years ago) some routines that were able to extract strings
> > from a .RES file that we distributed along with a real-mode DOS
> > application, because we had hit a problem with string literals
> > exhausting the data segments of the app, so I figure there might already
> > be some code in the MinGW project that can walk .RES file structures
> > whether they are bound onto an executable or not, but since I am not a
> > maintainer for this project, my talk is all conjecture up to this point.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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