Jeff Zaroyko wrote:
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
Yes, there's a cryptic comment burried away in the GHC manual that says GHC itself already uses windres to embed the manifest file into the compiled binary file. (And sure enough, if you crawl through with a hex editor you'll find the raw XML in there.) There's an option to tell GHC to not do this - however, I don't see any option anywhere to tell it to embed a *different* resource file instead. And frankly, the linker command looks frightening. (For starters, it's 6 pages long. I'm not kidding!) XN Resource Editor makes adding an icon child's play. (Interestingly, this also becomes the default window icon without any further action, which is nice.) However, either XN nor Resource Hack are able to embedd correct version info. And both of them crash quite a lot. (Even more interestingly, XN seems to make GHC-compiled binary files dramatically *smaller*... huh??)