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4353 :: how to make a resource file for nim on windows?

• oyster (orginal) [2018-11-04T14:08:42+01:00] view original

  In fact, I am using https://khchen.github.io/wNim/ with my nim 64 bits. All demos compile and run without problem

  In some of the demo files, there is a line

  {.passL: "wnim.res" .}
  Run

  which use a 32,468 bytes wnim.res

  But I found that no matter I use GoRc or ResourceHacker, the following wNim.rc file( which actually comes in wNim too)

  
  1000 ICON "images\\wNim.ico"
  Run

  can produce wnim.res file with different size

  for example

  
  GoRC.exe /r /machine X64 wNim.rc
  Run

  creates a 32,222 bytes wNim.res

  But when I try to compile the wNim's demo with the new wNim.res, I get

  
  Hint:  [Link]
  wnim.res: file not recognized: File format not recognized
  collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  Error: execution of an external program failed: 'gcc.exe  -mwindows  -o R:\a\main.exe  C:\Users\USER\.nimble\pkgs\winim-2.5.1\winim\inc\..\lib\wini...
   C:\Users\USER\nimcache\main_r\mydata.c.o  wnim.res   '
  Run

  any help? thanks

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• oyster (orginal) [2018-11-04T16:58:18+01:00] view original

  finally I found that wNim.res is actually obj file which can be read by ld of GCC, not res file

  we can make it by

   wnim.rc wnim.o
  cp wnim.o wnim.res
  Run

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• Ward (orginal) [2018-11-05T05:29:01+01:00] view original

  Here have some information.

  https://github.com/khchen/winim/tree/master/tcclib

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