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

[ColdShine <col...@us...>]

2008/8/29 Keith Marshall <kei...@us...>:
>
> What you also mentioned is irrelevant.  If you want us to give you
> effective diagnostics, then you've got to follow Eric Raymond's and
> Rick Moen's immortal advice:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#symptoms
>
> and *show* us what you actually see, not *tell* us what you think is
> happening.  In that vein, here is what *I* *actually* see, (with a
> cross-hosted build of MinGW's windres from binutils-2.18.50):
>
> [...]
>
> As you can see, I can't reproduce your syntax error; the above is
> exactly what I would expect.

I agree, and of course your results are what I'd expect, too. Thanks
for your hint in asking for help, though. So:

(Omit non-command line creation of empty.rc, which is indeed 0 bytes in size)

C:\Profiles\ColdShine\Projects>windres -v -i empty.rc -o empty.res
Using `gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED  empty.rc'
Using popen to read preprocessor output
windres: empty.rc:1: syntax error

C:\Profiles\ColdShine\Projects>windres -V
GNU windres 2.17.50 20060824


So, this is what happens on my computer. Any idea?


> It certainly doesn't appear abnormal.  What version of windres do you
> have?  IIRC, there was at least one badly broken issue, in the 2.16
> or 2.17 series of binutils releases.  Try upgrading.

I just (4 days ago) installed everything using the automated
installer, and chose either Candidate or Current (can't remember - I
checked they install the same binutils version, anyway). I doubt I can
get anything more recent.