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How to build windres to run on OS X
- From: Wenlin Institute <wenlin at wenlin dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:45:22 -0700
- Subject: How to build windres to run on OS X
Could anyone please explain how to build windres to run on OS X (or
Darwin)? I downloaded and installed binutils-2.16.1, which includes
windres.c, but windres is still not built or installed. The docs for
windres say:
"Warning: windres is not always built as part of the binary utilities,
since it is only useful for Windows targets."
What I'm trying to do is cross-compile the MS-Windows version of an
application, using a Macintosh. I've followed the instructions for
"Installing and Using the MinGW Cross-Compiler on Mac OS X" using
DarwinPorts
(URL:
http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/win32/
MinGW.20041207231336.1583.sulu.html).
It all seems fine except for no windres. I hope it's as simple as
adding an option to the "configure" script for binutils, but it's
awfully complicated; for example, I don't know what's going on in this
line:
if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_prog_WINDRES'+set}'`\" = set"; then
Below that is this line:
ac_cv_prog_WINDRES="$WINDRES" # Let the user override the test.
That "override" comment looks promising, if only I knew what it meant.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Best wishes,
Tom Bishop
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