[fpc-devel] multiply resource files bug (commit 7515)

[Yury Sidorov]

From: "Vincent Snijders" <vsnijders at quicknet.nl>
> Vincent Snijders schreef:
>> Yury Sidorov schreef:
>>> From: "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>
>>>> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Yury Sidorov wrote:
>>>> > From: "Павел Ишенин" <webpirat at mail.ru>
>>>> > > Hello, FPC developers' list
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I've noticed today that Yury resolved old and extremly bad 
>>>> > > for >
>>>> > lazarus bug
>>>> > > with multiply resource files. And now it is possible to use 
>>>> > > more than one
>>>> > > res in application.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I dont know magic words, but maybe it is possible to merge 
>>>> > > this >
>>>> > fix into
>>>> > > future 2.2 version? This help us to solve some problems in > 
>>>> > >  >
>>>> lazarus (xp
>>>> > > manifest injection, using res instead of lrs).
>>>> >
>>>> > I would like to see this fix in 2.2 as well.
>>>> > What other core developers think about it?
>>>>
>>>> The answer is the same as for Graeme's request to merge some 
>>>> fpcunit fixes:
>>>> Normally not, and since it's a rather big change which can have 
>>>> some as
>>>> yet unknown side-effects, I'd say this one is even less likely.
>>>
>>> I dont surprised with the answer :) The bugfix is really changes a 
>>> lot of code.
>>> Let's wait for 2.2.2.
>>>
>>> Yury.
>>
>> I might have encountered one of the side-effects.
>>
>> I compiled Lazarus with some components (rxnew for example), and 
>> windres used 470 MB Virtual memory in the task manager. After a 
>> while I got this message:
>> Compiling resource ..\units\i386-win32\fpc-res.res
>> D:\FPC\2.0.2\bin\i386-Win32\windres.exe: 
>> D:\FPC\2.0.2\bin\i386-Win32\windres.exe
>> : ..\units\i386-win32\fpc-res.res: unexpected end of file
>> Error: Error while linking
>
> Update: using windres from fpcbuild\trunk\install\binw32 I have no 
> such problem.

It may be windres bug or some of collected .res files is not fully 
correct...
What version each windres have?
Can you send me this fpc-res.res file?

Yury.