Re: [Tinycc-devel] my thesis is GPL

[Fred Weigel]

bj

I am not sure WHAT you are talking about. The GPL covers source code,
the source for the resources. It does NOT cover Windows XP, which is
what you are using to actually read and utilize your resources.

If you want "top to bottom" GPL, you would have to use WINE under LINUX
(as an example).

You could even (for example), use the Microsoft MSVC compiler (I use
MSVC 7) -- it is available as a free download from Microsoft. It can be
used to compile "GPL code". The tool chain really doesn't have much to
do with it.

In any case, TCC is a small fast compiler. That it happens to be "GPL"d
doesn't say anything about what you do with it -- you can use TCC to
compile commercial or restricted code as well.

And I don't really understand your problem -- are you running the rc
file through a preprocessor? Do you get any warning or error? Any
warnings on the window creation? And, what does this have to do with
TCC?

Fred Weigel

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:52 +0800, bj wrote:
> to Mike Henning
> hey, your Link2Res works fine however
> when i try to combine a .res file created by rc.exe or brc32.exe with a
> line like this in the rc file
> 1 24 RTManifestfile
> 
> where RTManifestfile is a macro for a name of the manifest file
> the manifest xp theme style works on my windows xp desktop computer but
> not on my windows xp pro dell latitude c840 laptop.
> in my laptop the executable created just shows a blank window. when i
> delete that line the executable works fine in both my desktop and laptop.
> 
> it may be a bug in your program but can you fix this?
> 
> and yes my thesis is in GPL so everything in it must be GPL-compatible.
> rc.exe and brc32.exe are not GPL-compatible because they don't have source
> code available so i can't use them in my thesis.
> i could use open source windres.exe but compiling a rc file with RCDATA in
> it (for my sound file and font file) causes a syntax error.
> i change it to RC_DATA and windres.exe compiles the rc file to a res file
> just fine. but when i link the res file to the exe file created by tcc.exe
> using Link2Res.exe, Link2Res.exe hangs/crashes and takes a long time to be
> killed by task manager.
> so is there any way to make Link2Res.exe recognize RC_DATA or .res files
> compiled by windres.exe
> i have to use windres.exe because it is GPL compatible. and i can't find
> an open source resource compiler in Google that works like rc.exe.
> 
> if anyone can give me a link to a GPL-compatible open source resource
> compiler other than windres.exe, i'll be very much grateful.
> openwatcom doesn't seem compatible with GPL
> if that can't be done, i'll switch to the full MinGW gcc.
> 
> thanks in advance
> pardon my english again