Compiling in windows resources (and DSSS)

[Derek Parnell]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:59:01 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

> Derek Parnell wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:53:59 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
>> 
>>> What's the best way to compile in .ico and .rc stuff?
>>> Does dmd on Windows do any of that for you?
>>>
>>> I found that I could call  "rcc resources.rc" and then add the resulting 
>>> .res file to the dmd command.  Is there a better way?
>>>
>>> And for using DSSS how would I add that rc step?  Anything better than 
>>> this?:
>>>
>>> [main.d]
>>>     prebuild = echo "Compiling resources..."; rcc main.rc
>>>     buildflags += main.res
>> 
>> I know you were not after Bud's way of doing this but here it is anyhow ...
>> 
>> First you have these lines in the 'Rule Definition File' (default.rdf) ...
>> 
>>   ----- Windows Resource Compiler --------
>>   This uses pragma( build, "<sourcefile>.rc");
>>   ----------------
>>   rule=Resources
>>   in=rc
>>   out=res
>>   tool=rc /r {@IN} /fo {@OUT}
>> 
>> Then in your source code you would have something like ...
>> 
>>   version(build) pragma(build, "main.rc");
> 
> Thanks.  Why does bud need to have such a verbose setup? 

Because.

The stuff in the RDF file is a once off. Then each program that is
dependant on a resource just has the single line of code. Too complex for
you? Okay, I can live with that.

>  Compared to 
> that I feel pretty happy with the 2-line config for dsss.  I see bud 
> also some other useful pragmas for doing Windows things like build_def 
> to set the gui/console flavor.
> 
> But yeh, I kind of gave up on bud sometime in 2006 when I sent you that 
> patch for supporting environment variables, you told me thanks, but you 
> already implemented it, and then no new release of bud with that feature 
> ever materialized.

I'm dead lazy I guess. I have done all that environment stuff and more, but
no one's paying me enough to drop more important things to finalise the
docs etc... I've actually be done a couple of 36-hour days recently to meet
paying deadlines and I'm actually just taking a break now (9:30pm Sunday)
in what's looking like another all nighter. But hey! life's good right?!
Especially when considering the alternative.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
skype: derek.j.parnell