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

[Vincent Snijders]

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.

Vincent