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Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95
- To: Douglas Steele <ds at dsteele dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95
- From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p dot dalgaard at biostat dot ku dot dk>
- Date: 18 Jul 1998 10:51:40 +0200
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <DXJwVJAfkfr1EwFg@dsteele.demon.co.uk>
Douglas Steele <ds@dsteele.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Can anyone suggest an alternative for windres on ecgs Mingw32.
> On some Win95 setups it fails because when it does a popen it dumps the
> res file to the screen instead of passing it to gcc. Problem, according
> to Mumit, is due not to windres, but to various Win95 DLL's which are
> used by Mingw32.
>
>
> It was suggested to me that I try to use windres compiled with djgpp
> ftp://sirio.stat.unipd.it/pub/misc and this compiles OK. Even links OK.
> Trouble is that I get a runtime error
> (system crash with blue screen
> Fatal Exception 0E at 0137:BFF9A07C
> then
> R incurred invalid page fault in module <unknown> at bffb:00080020)
>
> Presumably an incompatible windres.
>
The rumors I've heard say that the problems occur with W95 OSR*1*, but
not earlier or later versions and that it works with binutils 2.9.1...
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