[fpc-pascal] windres not required/provided by Debian 2.6.0 FPC

Tomas Hajny XHajT03 at hajny.biz
Wed Oct 10 11:37:05 CEST 2012


On Wed, October 10, 2012 04:16, waldo kitty wrote:
> On 10/8/2012 03:12, Tomas Hajny wrote:
>> The manual forgets to mention that this is only the case on Win32 (where
>> the various GNU tools and utilities are included with the FPC
>> installation
>> package). It also doesn't mention that different resource compilers may
>> be
>> used on other platforms (e.g. gorc on Win64, etc.).
>
> i've run into resource problems when compiling projects from win32(?) to
> OS2...
> on OS2, i have to use fpc directly... everything is developed on win32(?)
> [w2000pro or vista] and then copied to the OS2 machine to compile the
> project.lpr... currently i'm using EMX on the OS2 box and i always get an
> error
> on the resource file unless i simply "comment" it out (with a '.' as the
> second
> character)...
>
> how can i handle these resource files on OS2?

It would be better to see a particular example which doesn't work as
expected and information on what happens instead of the expected
behaviour.

In general, the standard IBM resource compiler RC.EXE is included in
optional item in the OS/2 standard installer covering development tools
(together with e.g. the standard linker LINK386.EXE). In addition, the
Developers Toolkit (included as an additional package in eComStation)
includes these standard IBM tools too. Finally, there are also 3rd party
resource compilers (in particular the free Watcom C/C++ compiler includes
a cross-platform resource compiler allowing compilation of resources also
on other platforms).

Tomas





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