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From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com (Mikey)
Subject: Re: Petzold and Mingw32
29 Nov 1997 18:39:08 -0800 :
Message-ID: <34806755.262747815.cygnus.gnu-win32@smtp.netzone.com>
References: <199711280757 DOT AA25142 AT melmac DOT risc DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Reply-To: jeffdbREMOVETHIS AT netzone DOT com
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 08:57:49 +0100 (MET), you wrote:

>Hi all !
>
>> You might also want to note that many examples that use resource files
>> will not compile out of the box with rcl. Try rc.exe from the MS Platform
>> SDK if you can, or modify the resource files to always use BEGIN and END
>> instead of { and }, plus don't use any accelerators and don't expect
>> dialog boxes to work :-(
>> 
>> Colin.
>> 
>> P.S. I have used the new integrated (includes res2coff like capability)
>> windres from Mumit Khan's EGCS package, but it seems to (1) GPF on
>> accelerator tables (at least RCL only gave syntax errors) and (2) work
>> even worse on dialog boxes.
>> 
>> P.P.S There seems to be a bug in res2coff that makes dialog boxes not work
>> very well in any case (even with MS rc.exe). I'm working on it.
>
>Another choice that works fine with dialog boxes etc. is to use rc.exe
>from Microsoft and resrc.exe from RSXNT which "includes" the .res file created

I think you mean rsrc.exe from RSXNTDJ1.ZIP available from djgpp mirrors.

>by rc into the executable.
>
>BW,
>    Axel
>
>===============================================================================
>Axel Riese
>Research Institute for Symbolic Computation
>J. Kepler University Linz
>A-4040 Linz                              e-Mail: Axel DOT Riese AT risc DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at
>Austria             URL: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/research/combinat/risc/
>===============================================================================
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