Re: [Mingw-users] windres problems with -D parameter

[Kai T. <Kai...@on...>]

Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfs...@gm...> wrote on 14.10.2009 15:16:03:

> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 09:15, John Brown <joh...@ho...> 
wrote:
> >
> > Hello Paulo,
> >
> >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 15:47, Mark  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Paulo Flabiano Smorigo wrote:
> >>>> Hi Everybody,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have the following windows resource:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1 VERSIONINFO
> >>>> FILEVERSION     1,0,0,0
> >>>> PRODUCTVERSION  0,0,0,0
> >>>> BEGIN
> >>>>       BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
> >>>>       BEGIN
> >>>>               BLOCK "000004b0"
> >>>>               BEGIN
> >>>>                       VALUE "FileDescription", "My App\0"
> >>>>                       VALUE "FileVersion",SVN_REV
> >>>>
> >>>> i586-mingw32msvc-windres: windres.rc:10: syntax error
> >>>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> the way I read it, it's SVN_REV that is undefined; that's the way
> >>> mingw-windres reports the error;
> >>> you need to #include [at the top of windres.rc] the header file
> >>> ["windres.h" for instance] that contains
> >>> #define SVN_REV 77777
> >>> [for instance]
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>>
> >>> Mark
> >>>
> >>> http://www.halloit.com
> >>>
> >>
> >> Hi Mark,
> >>
> >> You said that SVN_REV is undefined but, when I use
> >> -DSVN_REV=\""365M"\" the define is not set? Why not?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Paulo Flabiano Smorigo
> >>
> >> 
> 
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> >
> > You defined it incorrectly. FILEVERSION is not a string.
> > Check MSDN to see the correct  way to set FileVersion.
> > I posted a link some time ago. Didn't you see it?
> >
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa381043(VS.85).aspx
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alias John Brown.
> >
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> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I read the MSDN page but I still believe that isn't the problem. I put
> a string ("TESTESVN") directly as the FILEVERSION value and worked. If
> I use  #define SVN_REV="345" at the beginning of the file works too.
> The problem is when I pass the value as parameter (-DSVN_REV).
> 
> Thanks for the Support,
> Paulo Flabiano Smorigo

Does it work, if you use as option -DSVN_REV="\"345\"" ?
For me it works.

Kai

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