Re: exe icons

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

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Dwayne Carter wrote:
> Hi there, 
> 	Does anyone know how I can set the icon for the .exe file of my program
> under windows xp? I've made the .ico, but can't see how to put the 2
> together. Can I do this as part of my program? or is there a free
> application that will do it?

The icon needs to be a resource of your program. Assuming you are using
the mingw compiler you therefore need a .rc file that roughly looks like
this:

A ICON MOVEABLE PURE LOADONCALL DISCARDABLE "path/to/your.ico"

Then you need to compile it using windres

windres -i path/to/your.rc --input-format=rc -o path/to/result.res -O coff

The resulting .res file can then be linked along with the .o files to
generate the binary.

Greetings,
Armin
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