Can dmd compile a favicon.ico to exe file ?

[John Xu]

On Friday, 19 May 2023 at 21:19:07 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
>
> On 19/05/2023 9:39 PM, John Xu wrote:
>> On Thursday, 18 May 2023 at 15:39:05 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
>> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>>>
>>> On 19/05/2023 2:19 AM, John Xu wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 15 May 2023 at 03:54:03 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
>>>> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>>>>> That is only for OMF target.
>>>>>
>>>>> You need rc that comes with Visual Studio C++ build tools.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alternatively windres from mingw may work (I haven't 
>>>>> tested).
>>>>
>>>> How can I add this step to dub.sdl ?
>>>
>>> You would use one of the build commands and then put the 
>>> result file name into source files.
>>>
>>> However you may not want to require it in normal builds 
>>> (since the file it outputs won't change you can just commit 
>>> that) just to ensure your build is reproducible.
>> 
>> sourceFiles ?
>> or
>> libFiles ?
> sourceFiles.
>
> libFiles is for shared libraries.

When I put resource.rc in sourceFiles, dub said, "Error: 
unrecognized file extension rc";
When I put resource.res in sourceFiles, dub said,"resource.res : 
fatal error LNK1136: Invalid or damaged file.  Error: linker 
exited with status 1136"