Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Giulio Bernardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
vendor provide their own (brcc32 from borland, wrc from watcom, gorc), but
they are not "cross platform", even if wrc is able to compile win32, win16
and os2 resource files for those systems.
You stole my example! :-) I was just about to mention Watcom's
resource compiler. If it works for Win32, Win16 and OS/2, how can it
not be cross-platform? Or do you mean not cross-platform, because a
.res file compiled under OS/2 cannot be used as-is under Win32?
Exactly. E.g. OS/2's .res format is like the win16 one but without
support for string IDs (that is, you can't have a os/2 resource named
'MYFORM'). Moreover they have little syntax differences here and there.
For what regards wrc, it's simple: you tell wrc you want to compile a
win32 rc file, and it will output a win32 .res file. If you tell it to
use win16 format, .rc file must use that syntax and it will be compiled
as a win16 resource.
So you can't use wrc to compile a win32 rc file to a os2 res file: it's
like to have three separate resource compilers in one.
If
the latter, would that really be an issue for FPC with a slogan like
"write once, compile everywhere". As long as the application is
compiled on the platform it needs to run on, the resource will be
correct. This excludes cross-compiling, no idea how that works.
The idea is that we support win32 resources everywhere, since the {$R}
stuff comes from delphi, where it's used for win32 resources.
At the moment, winlike resources aren't supported on os/2 or classic mac
os because one might want to use their platform-specific resources. One
idea I have is to add something like {$resmode native/win32} (example
case: lazarus starts using resources, someone decides to port lazarus to
os/2, we have a problem. With the switch a program could contain both
win32 resources used by lazarus and os2 resources like the program icon
and so on).
Giulio
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