On November 28, 2002 02:26 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > That was my point. If you replace the .rc.o rule by .rc.res and .res.o > then windres happily builds the .res for you, and it still works on > Windows too.
This is simple, I agree. Adding a .rc -> .res is simple, and portable. > Yes you need to change the link command-line but I don't > think it's that bad. What about having to deal with the .o file that is present all over the place? That is the problem. And without a configure script, it becomes nasty. > Generating .o files in the proper format for linking directly is > fairly hard to do cleanly in ELF; wrc actually supports generating C > files, and we used to do it that way, but you need all kinds of tricks > to make them integrate properly in the PE header. In fact, I had something a lot simpler in mind. Currently, we define a variable called resources in the .spec.c file, which is later used in the nt_header structure. The idea was to simply generate the resources tree in a separate .c file, rename it to something like __wine_<spec file name>_resources, and make it non-static. Later, we can use it in the nt_header structure, just like we do right now. We still need to transfer the size of the resources... -- Dimi.
