Qt looks pretty nice. It's a shame it's future is now under a cloud re: Nokia.
Joseph On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:31 PM, David Connors <da...@codify.com> wrote: > On 1 March 2011 14:18, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> David #2 >> Yes, I did that after seeing the response from my test code. The >> MinGW/GCC-compiled executable doesn't respond to >> FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo - an empty string is returned. All the >> property details except size, type, date modified are blank. >> > > Yeah typical effort from the FOSS movement. I really don't understand the > whole MinGW effort and all this nonsense with getting crap like Apache and > so on going on Windows. Most of the resulting software is terrible to > use. That said I did have cause to build a QT based app a couple of weeks > ago and it* wasn't terrible.* > > The steps to get any sort of resource embedded in a PE format executable > when using GCC/MinGW etc. would be beyond painful. > > Maybe if you're concerned about your app being incompatible with future > versions of the MinGW app you could just hash the executable file as a way > of detecting a change? > > -- > *David Connors* | da...@codify.com | www.codify.com > Software Engineer > Codify Pty Ltd > Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 > 189 363 > V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact > > -- w: http://jcooney.net t: @josephcooney
