[fpc-pascal] Best way / tool to create resource files (*.res) for fpc projects

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 26 May 2016, Luiz Americo Pereira Camara wrote:

> For Lazarus projects, the IDE comes with an integrated resource editor that
> uses fcl-res to create the resource file
>
> In my case, i want to create a standalone resource to be used in a package
> so can't use Lazarus IDE editor
>
> Is there any tool that uses fcl-res to manipulate resource files? (GLazRes
> uses the old lrs format)
>
> Another solution is to create resource files with third party tool (
> http://www.resedit.net https://stefansundin.github.io/xn_resource_editor or
> even manually with windres)
>
> Is there any drawback of using third party tools to create resource files
> to be used with fpc?

Normally not. As long as they create valid .res files...

Michael.