Giulio Bernardi schreef:
Hi,
I was curious about resource support in FPC, and after investigating a
bit I wrote a library to handle resources. It provides classes to deal
with some common resource types, and readers and writers for various
file formats (res, coff, elf).
There could be various uses, for example:
- lazarus could use it to directly write version information and icon on
windows, or to store lazarus resources in real resources as delphi does
(even if I don't know if there will be improvements in doing this).
- it can be used for a resource editor or for the icon editor
- it can serve as a backend for a resource compiler.
Using the library I wrote a sort of replacement for fpcres, and with
some modifications here and there in fpc I had resources working for elf
on all targets (tested i386, x86_64, powerpc, arm, it should work on
other platforms too but I couldn't test because of compiler or qemu
problems). Moreover it solves some problems in current fpc support for
resources in elf and makes it easy to improve the format of elf resources.
If core devels are interested, may I talk to one of them by private
mail? (IIRC Michael Van Canneyt was involved with resources?)
One of the reason Lazarus does not use resources like Delphi, is that
there is no support for Mac OS X yet (elf is supported by fpcres, as you
mentioned). Does your library support that?
Vincent
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