[Haskell-cafe] Re: Windows details

[Jeff Zaroyko]

Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin <at> btinternet.com> writes:

> 
> Steve Schafer wrote:
> > Version information and application icons are both stored in data
> > structures called "resources"; these are appended to the executable
> > portion of the application, inside the EXE file. 
> >   
> 
> Thanks for your input. I'm now playing with XN Resource Editor. Getting 
> the version information to work correctly appears to be tricky, but 
> everything else seems quite straight forward...
> 

In theory, you should be able to use mingw's windres tool to produce an object
file from the resource definition which you'd link with the rest of your program.

http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/MS resource compiler