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Re: Windres problem with Boling book example
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Danny Backx <danny dot backx at scarlet dot be>, binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: 27 Nov 2006 15:45:27 -0800
- Subject: Re: Windres problem with Boling book example
- References: <1164309392.4269.5.camel@dannypc> <4566FEEC.4060303@redhat.com>
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> > This looks pretty lame, there must be a reason why this isn't
> > implemented like this to begin with. Does anyone see a reason ?
>
> The reason is probably that the syntax that the original coders had to
> work with only showed upper case keywords.
Yes, exactly. I just worked from the Microsoft documentation. The
syntax and examples always used uppercase keywords, so that is what I
implemented. In any case my only interest was the ability to build
icons and include them in Windows programs which I built on a Unix
host. I went ahead and implemented the whole resource file syntax
because it was pretty simple, and because I was getting tired of
Windows programming. Other people have improved it since then.
I don't think I even had a copy of the Microsoft resource compiler; I
certainly never ran it. I just implemented everything based on the
documentation, and based on tests to see whether the generated output
worked correctly.
Ian