windres broken
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sat Jan 7 13:47:00 GMT 2017
On 1/6/2017 11:10 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> Something is wrong with windres:
>
> $ windres myapp.rc -o myapp.res
> Usage: windres [option(s)] [input-file] [output-file]
> The options are:
> -i --input=<file> Name input file
> -o --output=<file> Name output file
> -J --input-format=<format> Specify input format
>
> The syntax above is shown here:
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/windres.html
>
> Yet the command just prints usage instead of doing the thing. This command
> works:
>
> windres myapp.rc myapp.res
>
> However this shouldnt be needed as described by the man:
>
> -i filename
> The name of the input file. If this option is not used, then
> windres will use the first non-option argument as the input file
> name.
>
> This is a problem because Git itself uses the "input -o output" syntax, which
> should be working:
>
> http://github.com/git/git/blob/e05806d/Makefile#L1816-L1819
That syntax works for me. Are you sure you're using Cygwin's windres?
Ken
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