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

[Yury Sidorov]

From: "Vincent Snijders" <vsnijders at quicknet.nl>
>>>> 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?
>>
>
> Working version (from fpc 2.3.1):
> GNU windres 2.16.91 20050827
> Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the 
> terms of
> the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no 
> warranty.
>
> Not working version (from fpc 2.0.2):
> GNU windres 2.9.5
> Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the 
> terms of
> the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no 
> warranty.
>
> Attached is the used fpc-res.res file.
>
> Looking at the version, I think windres is just too old. I never had 
> fpc 2.0.4
> installed on this computer, so I am still using the binutils from 
> fpc 2.0.2.

Yes. I found that windres 2.9.5 is buggy. It compiles .rc files not 
100% properly and this causes crash if several .res files are merged 
together.

windres 2.16.91 should be used. You need to update your binutils.

Yury.