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Re: Any idea windres does not work with native windows dlls/exes ?
2012/11/21 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could somebody please explain to me why windres complains about
> native windows dlls (let alone I can't get it work with new ones built
> on Cygwin). For example:
>
> windres /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/ntdll.dll
> windres: unexpected version string length 68 != 32 + 8
>
> windres /cygdrive/c/windows/sysWOW64/kernel32.dll
> windres: unexpected version string length 68 != 32 + 8
>
> windres /cygdrive/c/windows/winhlp32.exe
> windres: unexpected version string length 68 != 32 + 8
>
> Any idea how to make it work, please?
>
> TIA,
>
> Anton Lavrentiev
> Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI
There is an issue about parsing version-resource in binary-format in
binutils. I have taken a look to it but didn't found for now the
underlying cause.
Kai
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