Re: [Boost-build] Resource compiler on linux cross compiling

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Resource compiler on linux cross compiling
From: Bo Jensen (jensen.bo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-28 04:19:45

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Jürgen Hunold <jhunold_at_gmx.eu> wrote:

> Hi Bo,
>
> On Friday, 21. September 2012 08:59:05 Bo Jensen wrote:
> >
> http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Problem-with-resource-files-on-Ubuntu-td2
> > 685602.html
> >
> > Is this really the recommended solution i.e to add a resource compiler ?
>
> Yes, I still think so.
>
> > To
> > the best of my knowledge there are no resource compiler on linux or how
> > should that be handled, can anyone give me an example ?
>
> The thread contains my example using mingw's resource compiler.
>
> This is
>
> /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-windres -V
> GNU windres (GNU Binutils) 2.20
> Copyright 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
> the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later
> version.
> This program has absolutely no warranty.
>
> on my system (Kubuntu 12.04.0.1) and can be specified as
>
> using gcc : 4.4~msvc
>           : # compiler
>             /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-g++
>           : # options
>             <archiver>/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-ar
>             <rc>/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-windres
>           ;
>
> windres had some limitations when I last used it on windows, so your
> mileage
> may vary.
>
> And you can always put "<rc>yourfancyscript" in there and use this to
> output a
> dummy file or do anything you want.
>
> I remember that the resource contains dll/exe version information, so the
> chances are that you really need it one way or the other.
>
> Yours,
>
> Jürgen
>

Thank you for the reply Jürgen.

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