[fpc-devel] resource compilation fails, if cpp is not on the path

[Yury Sidorov]

From: "Vincent Snijders" <vsnijders at quicknet.nl>
> Yury Sidorov schreef:
>> From: "Vincent Snijders" <vsnijders at quicknet.nl>
>>
>>
>>> Yury Sidorov schreef:
>>>>
>>>> Yes. It is known issue. Compiler can search for "cpp" tool the 
>>>> same way
>>>> as other tools like "as", "ld" and then pass --preprocessor 
>>>> switch to
>>>> windres if "cpp" was found.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I created the attached patch. What do you think?
>>
>> Use FindFile and FindExe functions to search for "cpp". The same 
>> way as windres binary is searched above:
>>
>>  resfound:=false;
>>  if utilsdirectory<>'' then
>> 
>> resfound:=FindFile(utilsprefix+bin+source_info.exeext,utilsdirectory,false,resbin); 
>> if not resfound then
>>    resfound:=FindExe(utilsprefix+bin,false,resbin);
>>
>
> utilsprefix is not necessary, don't you think? Or do you have 
> i386-win32-cpp on linux for cross compilation?

You are right. There is no need for prefix or path search in case of 
cpp.
Your patch is correct.

Yury.