Dear FPC-all!

I have a big projects with lots of DLLs. All of them are cross-platform and link the resources with $R directive.

For version info I use .rc scripts to manage it under VCS and to prevent .RES flicker under different compilers (FPC and Delphi)

Version info is a nice example.

{$R script.rc srcipt.res}

This kind of resource management implies usage of windres (or any other RC script compiler)

With the crosscompilation things became funnier:

I can under Linux get win32 exe with mingw-windres

I can under Linux get Mach-O 32 exe with odcc-windres

I can NOT under MacOS get Mach-O 32/64 exe with resources.

So the question - why current FPC can link .res under any platform (with the help of fpcres) but cannot build such file under any platform without foreign tools?

Is not the time came for own resource compiler for limited type of resources (BITMAP, CURSOR, MANIFEST, VERSIONINFO)?

with best regards,

Anton

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