Re: Using MS Windows .RES files with GNAT

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In article <01bca815$60ac1080$61a2989e@adormal.demon.co.uk>, "Norman France" <norman@adormal.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Does anybody know how to get the MS Windows version of GNAT to link a .RES
>resource file into an executable ?
> 
>I've tried passing them to GNATMAKE via the linker options but GNATLINK
>complains that it doesn't recognise the file type.   
>
>None of the GNAT documentation I've got is specific to the MS Windows
>version.
>
>Can anybody help please ?
>
>        Norman France.
>
If you have access to a MS development tool, MSVC++ etc, it comes with a 
utility called "cvtres". This utility produces an object file, ".obj", 
from a resource file, (either ".rc" or ".res", cannot remember which) which 
can be linked using gnatlink by including it on the command line. With 
GNATMAKE, use the "-largs res_file.obj" (use your own res_file.obj) option.

If you don't have access to the MS utility, Cygnus (the providers of the GNAT 
runtime on MS platform) has a utility called "res2coff" which is designed to 
make resource files available to the linker. 

I use the MS utility and don't know exactly where to find the "res2coff" 
utility except to start at www.cygnus.com 

Simon Knipe - sknipe@ktc.com