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

[Vincent Snijders]

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

Vincent