Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <038f01c10946$9cdeeaa0$6d07a8c0@miro> From: "Michael Scheibler" To: "Dario Alcocer" Cc: References: <030e01c1093b$0d089030$6d07a8c0@miro> <15179.1099.799991.279912@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com> Subject: Re: application icons Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:45:42 +0200 Organization: OneVision Software AG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 From: "Dario Alcocer" Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 3:34 PM > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Scheibler writes: > > Michael> Is it possible to give an icon to an .exe? > > Yes, but it needs to be linked into the EXE. However, a work-around > of sorts is to create a short-cut to the EXE, and change the default > icon of the short-cut by right-clicking on the short-cut and clicking > on Properties. Well, actually I wanted to know how to link an .exe with an icon. I tried this: echo "iconid icon file.ico" | windres -O coff -o file.o gcc .... file.o -o binary.exe What am I doing wrong? Michael > > Hope this helps, > > -- > Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. > alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/