[Bug binutils/30376] windres cannot parse rc files which it itself generated

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30376

--- Comment #10 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Pali Rohár from comment #7)


> "resource_name4" "resource_type4" { "resource_string_data4" }

> i686-w64-mingw32-windres: test-resource.rc:4: syntax error

Right - this is the same issue as described in comment #3.  The parser thinks
that you are concatenating two double-quoted-strings together to make a single
resource name that includes a space in the middle.  Since spaces are not
allowed in resource names it signals a syntax error.



> Binary resource test-resource.ms.res compiled by MS compiler I can put into
> resource-only DLL via MS linker and then list its content via wrestool:

> --type='"RESOURCE_TYPE4"' --name='"RESOURCE_TYPE4"' --language=1033

> And now if I decompile resource.ms.res via GNU windres I get following
> output:
> 
> $ i686-w64-mingw32-windres test-resource.ms.res
> 
> /* Type: """RESOURCE_TYPE4"""
> 
>    Name: """RESOURCE_NAME4""".  */
> 
> """RESOURCE_NAME4""" """RESOURCE_TYPE4""" MOVEABLE PURE
> BEGIN
>   0x6f736572L, 0x65637275L, 0x7274735fL, 0x5f676e69L, 0x61746164L,
>   "4"
> END

> It is clear that it is not what was on the input as resource name and types
> have messed quote character.

I think that the triple quotes are an attempt to encode a single quote without
it having any kind of special meaning.  But in practice this does not work.

I think the point that you are trying to make however is that the MS resource
compiler actually includes the double quote characters as part of the resource
names, correct ?  

I will have a look into this now.

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