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

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Sergei Gorelkin wrote:

> 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?

Yes. The crossfpc people have made a similar tool. I think we should add
an option to the compiler which specifies the name of the resource compiler
tool - this way we avoid the renaming issue.

I'll discuss it on core, and get back to you.

Michael.