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RE: Is a "Windows Message compiler" desired as Tool in binutils?
- From: rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca (Ross Ridge)
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:42:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Is a "Windows Message compiler" desired as Tool in binutils?
Christian Groessler writes:
>I in fact would like to have it. Currently, when I build a win program
>which writes to the event log with mingw, I have to use the mc program
>from msvc. It would be nice not to be dependent on msvc.
If you want a "free as in beer" source for the Microsoft message compiler
(mc), you can also get it from the Windows SDK (and the older Platform
SDK). I use the Microsoft resource compiler when bugs in binutil's
windres prevent it from working.
Ross Ridge