From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Subject: Re: WINDRES alternative for egcs Mingw32 on Win95 18 Jul 1998 15:06:37 -0700 Message-ID: References: To: Douglas Steele Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Douglas Steele writes: > Can anyone suggest an alternative for windres on ecgs Mingw32. > On some Win95 setups it fails because when it does a popen it dumps the > res file to the screen instead of passing it to gcc. Problem, according > to Mumit, is due not to windres, but to various Win95 DLL's which are > used by Mingw32. > > > It was suggested to me that I try to use windres compiled with djgpp > ftp://sirio.stat.unipd.it/pub/misc and this compiles OK. Even links OK. > Trouble is that I get a runtime error > (system crash with blue screen > Fatal Exception 0E at 0137:BFF9A07C > then > R incurred invalid page fault in module at bffb:00080020) > > Presumably an incompatible windres. > The rumors I've heard say that the problems occur with W95 OSR*1*, but not earlier or later versions and that it works with binutils 2.9.1... -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".