Re: win32 version info

Magnus Hagander wrote:

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>
>>Can't you localize this into a single build rule somewhere?  And surely
>>we do not need to maintain a boilerplate .rc file for every executable.
>>
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>
>There is a field in the RC file that is "file description". It's pretty
>much different for every file. (There is also a "product description" in
>there which is the same).
>
>As for putting it in a single build rule - I don't know if that can be
>done. I thought it over and didn't come up with a way, but there may be
>other who are better at writing Makefiles... I guess a script could be
>written that generates the file, but the per-binary information has to
>be somewhere. Not sure how that method would be cleaner.
>
>

We would not need to generate it at all. Maybe something like this would
work:

In the makefile, symlink each .rc file to the boilerplate version
somewhere, and put a definition like this:

FILEDESC="\"whatever you like\""

and also conditionally include the *rc.o file in its objects list.

The rc file would, of course, have this line:

   VALUE "FileDescription",  FILEDESC

Makefile.global or similar could define the build rule once, like

%.o: %.rc
    windres -DFILEDESC=$(FILEDESC) $< -o $@
--include-dir=$(top_builddir)/src/include

I hope you get the idea.

cheers

andrew