Re: Windres problem with manifests

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Markus,

> I have a working windres, from which i don't know where the h*** i got
> it from:
>
> 	mduft parity.new $ windres --version
> 	GNU windres 2.9.1

Wow, that is old.

> The resulting windres seems to work, and produces .res and .o files
> without problems - but: the resulting files are damaged! I stripped down
> a little test case (attached) which shows, that embedding manifest files
> as resource doesn't seem to work! See file "instructions" to see how to
> produce the error i see (while linking the resulting object).

Unfortunately that test case assumes that I have cl.exe and link.exe and that I 
can run them on my local machine...  (Well I could run them. but I certainly do 
not have them).

So...
  1. What is the error that you are seeing ?

  2. If you compare an object file produced by the 2.9.1 windres and an object
     file produced by the 2.18 windres how do they differ ?

  3. Your testcase includes a Makefile and sources to build a client and a dll,
     but neither of these are referenced in the "instructions" file.  Are they
     needed at all ?

  4. Have you tried a windres built from the mainline of the binutils sources
     in the CVS repository ?

Cheers
  Nick