[Haskell-cafe] Re: Windows details

[Jeff Zaroyko]

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

> 
> Jeff Zaroyko wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Yes, there's a cryptic comment burried away in the GHC manual that says 
> GHC itself already uses windres to embed the manifest file into the 
> compiled binary file. (And sure enough, if you crawl through with a hex 
> editor you'll find the raw XML in there.) There's an option to tell GHC 
> to not do this - however, I don't see any option anywhere to tell it to 
> embed a *different* resource file instead. 

All I meant by linking is including the object file when you invoke ghc.

windres foo.rc -o foores.o
ghc bar.hs foo.o

-Jeff