From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: build failure on M$ using MSVC: nt/icons/emacs.ico
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 11:26:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u63t4glb8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48353F7E.1030207@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:40:14 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> dhruva wrote:
> > Hi,
> > The current build on M$ using MSVC fails due to something in the new
> > emacs.ico file. The MSVC resource compiler is not able to handle the
> > file (old DIB and pass it through SDKPAINT..). I could not make much
> > of it (was this icon image created on MS Vista?).
>
> It was not created on Vista, but it does contain a PNG icon which Vista
> uses. The problem appears to be that the MS resource compiler checks the
> icon before copying it into the resources (while the MingW one just
> copies it), so you need an up to date resource compiler from the latest
> Windows SDK to use it with modern icons.
I think we should:
. add some wizardry to nt/configure.bat that checks the MS resource
compiler version and displays a warning if it is too old;
. modify the nmake parts of the respective Makefiles to not fail the
entire build just because that icon fails to compile.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-24 8:26 UTC|newest]
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2008-05-22 9:15 build failure on M$ using MSVC: nt/icons/emacs.ico dhruva
2008-05-22 9:40 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-24 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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