Re: [ros-dev] rbuild auto generated resources

[Aleksey Bragin]

If it's impossible to make correct .rc files (without the hassle of  
using backends), then Marc's way is a way to go.
There is such tool by Wine, which uses .spec, it may need writing a  
MSVC-backend though,.

WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.

On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Alex Ionescu wrote:

>   I think you're all missing the point.
>
>  As it stands now, MSVC won't even READ most of your resource files
>  because you've decided to write them in a way that violates the .rc
>  standard and that only binres/windres/whatever-you-call-that-
>  incompatible-garbage can parse.
>
>  Mark's proposal, apart from fixing all the problems he brought up,
>  will finally allow you to write resource files that both MSVC and
>  your-retarded-rc-compiler-name-goes-here can understand, with minimum
>  effort. Right now, you're all stuck rewriting all your .rc files and
>  creating .msvc.rc files.
>
>  By the way Mark, you should extend this to definition files. Once
>  again, MSVC is incompatible with all the ReactOS .def files, which
>  have been tailored so that Mangle32-gcc can understand them, so
>  you'll have to create msvc.def files as well.
>
>  The more rbuild can generate independently, the better. You get MSVC
>  files *after* running "make msvc8", and it's that step that would be
>  creating the .def/.rc files for MSVC anyway -- what exaclty is it all
>  you're complaining about regarding "MSVC" compatibility? You don't
>  have it, how the hell can you lose it, and more importantly, why is
>  the only suggestion that will finally let you have it "disliked"?!
>
>  You make no sense.
>
>  --
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu