[fpc-devel] Enabling use of {$R *.dfm} on Windows

[Sergei Gorelkin]

Hello,

I have written - and submit for your judgement - a small utility that 
allows to use {$R *.dfm} directives on Windows. It is somewhat like a 
fpcres utility that exists for ELF platforms.

How to use:

1) compile :)
2) rename windres.exe from binutils package to windres1.exe
3) replace windres.exe with compiled binary.

How does it work:

It serves as a proxy for windres.exe. If input file is not a component 
stream, it simply passes that file to original windres. Otherwise, it 
optionally converts text stream into binary format, then dumps it to a 
temporary file (.rc format that contains a hex dump) and passes that 
temporary file to original windres to compile. Ideally it could write 
COFF file directly, but now it is just a proof of concept.

Is such thing useful and can it be eventually included into mainstream?

Regards,
Sergei

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