I received this from one of GPC's more friendly people: I put the attached file online on
http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/joinres.pas
If it really is a problem, the FPC team will of course some how integrate it with the current distributions. I post here mainly because there might be people currently experimenting with win32 resources.
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From: Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)
Organization: ChiefSoft
To:
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:06:25 -0000
Subject: Win32 FPC and resource files
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Hi Marco
I have solved a problem that has plagued the Win32 versions of FPC and
GPC and GCC for a long time - the problem of linking multiple binary
resource files. FPC happily converts the resource files with windres
but of course any attempt to link more than one of them fails. Attached
is a small program that combines any number of binary resource files
into a single one - which can then be converted into COFF format by
windres and then linked. I intend to do all this automatically and
transparently in my own compiler front end for GPC. I am now submitting
this code for you FPC guys to use. Please pass it on to the appropriate
person. The secret of combining more than one file is that all other
ones (other than the first) have to be copied from offset 32 -
otherwise, it won't work. So a simple "copy /b" will not work.
Hope you guys find it useful!
Best regards, The Chief
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Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)
web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~african_chief/
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