Subject: Re: Petzold and Mingw32
From: [email-masked] (Axel Riese)

28 Nov 1997 09:20:16 -0800
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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
by rc into the executable.

BW,
    Axel

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