Simply a note that may spare someone else needless hairpulling.
Yesterday I finally regained a debug emx build by configuring with
--disable-debug --enable-optimize and then manually replacing -O with
-g; this works around the longstanding nglayout.dll linkage failure. But
when trying to launch the beast, no splashscreen would appear and the
immediate crash would corrupt the entire desktop, e.g. windows would
remain painted on the screen after an app had closed, blank windowlist
etc., requiring a reboot. Even idebug crashed trying to load
mozilla.exe. After countless reboots and poring over diffs, this
afternoon I noticed that toolkit/bin/rc.exe was being used instead of
os2/rc.exe to compile and bind the icon and splashscreen bitmap in
xpfe/bootstrap. I disabled it, forcing os2/rc.exe to run. It immediately
failed, complaining it couldn't find mozos2.ico and splashos2.bmp.
Copying them into the objdir fixed that and the result was a healthy
mozilla.exe and normal desktop. Using the toolkit rc with the resources
in the objdir would probably have the same effect as it works fine for
wdgtres.dll (where we do copy the resource files to the objdir); I just
haven't tried it yet.
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