[CMake] Support for rc-files with mingw?

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Sat Jul 15 15:14:47 EDT 2006


At 02:36 PM 7/15/2006, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>William A. Hoffman schrieb:
>> At 11:47 AM 7/15/2006, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've a project where I want to add a rc-file. This works fine with msvc
>>> but it seems that cmake doesn't handle this for mingw.
>>>
>>> ADD_EXECUTABLE(foo WIN32 foo.cpp foo.rc)
>>>
>>> Isn't ths supported by cmake or is something wrong with my statement?
>>>
>>> Thx,
>>> Christian
>> 
>> 
>> That is currently un-implemented for mingw.  Works with borland and
>> ms.   It would not be too hard to add, but last time I tried it did
>> not work.   It is treated like a language.  You could try this:
>> PROJECT(foo C CXX RC)
>> 
>> And see what happens.  For MS and Borland, the rc language is automatically
>> enabled.
>> 
>I'll try this and when it won't work I'll call windres.exe by myself and
>add the resulting obj-file to the target on link-time.

If you give me the correct command line for windres, I should be able to
get it working.  As well as a small example program that I can add into
the CMake tests.

-Bill



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