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Understanding the usage of resources in Linux

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luciano de souza

Hello all,

I want to use resources with FPC 2.6.2. Reading on Lazarus wiki, I knew it's recommended the usage of Lazarus resources (lazres).

This is not an option for me. "lazres" expects a lrs file and I can't generate it.

I am blind. I can install Lazarus in my Linux, but only to use some units. The graphical interface of Lazarus is completely inaccessible.

I searched for a lrs example. I thought I could write it manually. But it's impossible. It's a complex and a very large file.

The choices are:

1. A command line program generates the lrs file. Something like: "program file1.tpl file2.wav. After this, I could use lazres.
2. In my Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits, a program compile rc scripts into a res files. For a long time, I tried to do it. I heard resources have a bad behaviour in Linux.

Well, my question is: using Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits and only the command line and a text editor like Gedit, is it possible to add files as resources in my executable?

Regards, Luciano de Souza

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Reinier Olislagers
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luciano de souza wrote
I want to use resources with FPC 2.6.2. Reading on Lazarus wiki, I knew it's recommended the usage of Lazarus resources (lazres).

No, it's not recommended - where does it say that (the article may need to be fixed)

2. In my Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits, a program compile rc scripts into a res files. For a long time, I tried to do it. I heard resources have a bad behaviour in Linux.

You can install windres. This compiles .rc resource scripts into .res resources. These can be used by FPC/Lazarus.

Package names differ; the wiki article has some suggestions for debian based systems like Ubuntu.

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