Re: win32 compiled exe icon

["Richard Warren" <rew primagraphics co uk>]

> Hello, I'm experimenting with mingw to compile gtk apps on win32. How
> can icon can be inserted to a gtk win32 exe ? Is there a function that
> do such thing?

If your icon is in a file called "my_icon.ico", create yourself an "rc" file 
with the following single-line content:

   1 ICON "my_icon.ico"

Then run:

   windres my_icon.rc my_icon.o

This effectively "compiles" the icon file into a normal object file.

You can then link your "my_icon.o" object file into your .exe as normal 
using gcc.

(I got most of this info a long time ago from previous mailing list 
discussions of the same thing, so you might like to search the archives for 
"windres" or "icons" for more details).

Hope that helps,
Richard.