11 Sep
2008
11 Sep
'08
6:59 p.m.
Andrew Coppin
Steve Schafer wrote:
Version information and application icons are both stored in data structures called "resources"; these are appended to the executable portion of the application, inside the EXE file.
Thanks for your input. I'm now playing with XN Resource Editor. Getting the version information to work correctly appears to be tricky, but everything else seems quite straight forward...
In theory, you should be able to use mingw's windres tool to produce an object file from the resource definition which you'd link with the rest of your program. http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/MS resource compiler