windres: serious bug

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

Folks,

I am following Mozilla's development, mainly the current efforts
to port the Win32 build to the MinGW tools. This effort is
tracked in Bug #134113:
	http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134113

The latest development in this saga is a nasty windres bug
which has a _very_ ugly workaround. Here is a sample of what
needs to happen to work around it:

-    CONTROL         108,IDC_STATIC,"Static",SS_BITMAP,11,11,83,162,
+    CONTROL
+#ifndef __MINGW32__
+                    108,
+#endif
+                    IDC_STATIC,"Static",SS_BITMAP,11,11,83,162,

This is what people had to say about it:

    per Marco Cocco based on microsoft documentation and based on my reading
    of the msdn pages a resource compiler/decompiler needs to be able to 
    handle both strings and numeric types for the type and name fields, 
    windres is therefore broken.

    borland resource workshop 4 (c) 1991, 1993 supported this.

Due to the ugliness of the solution, people decided to postpone this bug
for a fixed version of windres. However, we're still looking to catch the
Mozilla 1.4beta, and so I was wondering if someone can help out here.

In all honesty, given the lengthy FSF process, I was hoping someone who can
contribute code looks into this one, so we can get a solution out there
soon.

-- 
Dimi.