Re: [Openvpn-devel] Allow to fill Details tab for exe files

[Bertrand J. <be...@me...>]

D'ar sul 07 a viz Eost 2011 e 20 eur 11, « Gert Doering » he deus skrivet :
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 07:56:24PM +0200, Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
> > > Two questions:
> > > 
> > >  - what happens if windres is not found?  will the compilation break?
> > >    (I'm not sure whether windres will always be there or not)
> > 
> > In the present configure.ac, it's only needed when WIN32 = yes, so it's
> > windows/mingw only.
> 
> Yes.  So mingw always has "windres"?  Otherwise the produced Makefiles
> won't work.

It always have, it's provided by bintutils

> > >  - if I read this right, it will only work for the autoconf / mingw based
> > >    build, but not for the msvc++ / python based build, right?  will it
> > >    co-exist, or break the python build?
> > 
> > I have to say that I didn't test with msvc++/python as I only use to
> > cross compile applications. But if I read well the build process for
> > msvc++/python it does not use autotools stuffs.
> 
> Indeed.  David / Samuli: how is the python Makefile built?  How does
> this build system know which files to compile?

Looking to install-win32/makeopenvpn, it run autotools and configure,
this may need some tweak :

*inux)
+ export WINDRES=i586-mingw32msvc-windres

Is there a windres equivalent for msvc ?

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Beber