[Fwd: Re: windows_icon .. how to?]

[calmar <mac calmar ws>]

calmar wrote:
> Hi,
> I found the function:
> iconw = gdk_image_new_from_file ("icon.xpm");
> but it still don't work.
> Well actually I make the program in MSWindows..maybe this is the
> reason..it should work now, isn it?

Hi Calmar,
Did you ever get this to work ? 

YEP, yesterday with a hint from Tor (tml)in the Yahoo groups.

He said, you have to build a resource for your program, and there would be no way without in MS windows, because the main windows of a gtk programm seems to be a 'real' MS windows (declared like this), and this needs the resource .. hmm.


First you have to make a resource file:

	windres myapp.rc -O coff -o myapp.res

and linking with: 

	gcc -mwindows myapp.o myapp.res -o myapp.exe

(according to: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/windres.html )

In my special case:
my blackj.rc:
1 ICON        "blackj.ico"

and the icon in the same folder.

then I typed this: (result -> blackj.res)

windres blackj.rc -O coff -o blackj.res

..and finally I placed the blackj.res just behind the object files while linking, in order to link it together.
gcc black.o blackj.res -o black.exe $(LFLAGS)

I hope it works!

calmar





ty very much



calmar


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