windres: zlib.rc:4: syntax error

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com
Wed Feb 21 16:22:00 GMT 2007


Ok using the very latest zlib distribution I was able to compile the rc file:

$ windres -DGCC_WINDRES -i win32/zlib1.rc -o win32/zlib1.res

Simple bad luck...

Sorry for the noise,
-M

On 2/21/07, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
>   Has anyone of you any experience in using windres. I simply wanted
> to try it out on a random res file. Here is what I get:
>
> $ windres -i zlib.rc -o zlib.res
> windres: zlib.rc:4: syntax error
>
> Am I missing something here ? I could only find a very old post on that subject:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-01/msg00600.html
>
> Thanks
> -Mathieu
>
> $ cat zlib.rc
> #include <windows.h>
>
> #define IDR_VERSION1  1
> IDR_VERSION1    VERSIONINFO     MOVEABLE IMPURE LOADONCALL DISCARDABLE
>   FILEVERSION    1,1,3,0
>   PRODUCTVERSION 1,1,3,0
>   FILEFLAGSMASK VS_FFI_FILEFLAGSMASK
>   FILEFLAGS     0
>   FILEOS        VOS_DOS_WINDOWS32
>   FILETYPE      VFT_DLL
>   FILESUBTYPE   0       // not used
> BEGIN
>   BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
>   BEGIN
>     BLOCK "040904E4"
>     //language ID = U.S. English, char set = Windows, Multilingual
>
>     BEGIN
>       VALUE "FileDescription", "zlib data compression library\0"
>       VALUE "FileVersion",      "1.1.3\0"
>       VALUE "InternalName",     "zlib\0"
>       VALUE "OriginalFilename", "zlib.dll\0"
>       VALUE "ProductName",      "ZLib.DLL\0"
>       VALUE "Comments","DLL support by Alessandro Iacopetti & Gilles Vollant\0"
>       VALUE "LegalCopyright", "(C) 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly & Mark Adler\0"
>     END
>   END
>   BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
>   BEGIN
>     VALUE "Translation", 0x0409, 1252
>   END
> END
>


-- 
Mathieu

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