Re: [Mingw-users] windres unavoidably reports syntax error at *.rc:1

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2008-08-29 14:01Z, ColdShine wrote:
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>> [...] I tried to just launch "windres -i empty.rc -o empty.res",
>> where empty.rc is an existing empty file, and it was still
>> complaining about a syntax error in the first line.
> 
> So the actual file contents are completely irrelevant.

/tmp[0]$touch empty.rc
/tmp[0]$windres -v -i empty.rc -o empty.res
Using `gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED  empty.rc'
Using popen to read preprocessor output
windres: no resources
/tmp[1]$windres --version |head -1
GNU windres 2.17.50 20060817

> Anyway, in case you still don't feel like relying on my statement

It's not a personal matter of believing your report or not. Rather,
it's an objective matter of finding out how to reproduce the problem.