How do I add an icon to a mingw-gcc compiled executable?
You need to create the icon first. Then you need to create a RC file with the below content. Here we'll name it as my.rc.
id ICON "path/to/my.ico"The id mentioned in the above command can be pretty much anything. It doesn't matter unless you want to refer to it in your code. Then run windres as follows:
windres my.rc -O coff -o my.resThen while building the executable, along with other object files and resource files, include my.res which we got from the above step. e.g.:
g++ -o my_app obj1.o obj2.o res1.res my.resAnd that should be all there is to it.
And, at no extra charge, if you want to include version information in yourapplication, add the following boilerplate to a new .rc file and follow the above mentioned steps.
1 VERSIONINFOFILEVERSION 1,0,0,0PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,0BEGIN BLOCK "StringFileInfo" BEGIN BLOCK "080904E4" BEGIN VALUE "CompanyName", "My Company Name" VALUE "FileDescription", "My excellent application" VALUE "FileVersion", "1.0" VALUE "InternalName", "my_app" VALUE "LegalCopyright", "My Name" VALUE "OriginalFilename", "my_app.exe" VALUE "ProductName", "My App" VALUE "ProductVersion", "1.0" END END BLOCK "VarFileInfo" BEGIN VALUE "Translation", 0x809, 1252 ENDENDNote, the langID is for U.K. English (which is the closest localisation toAustralia I could identify.) If you want U.S. "English" then change the BLOCKline to:
BLOCK "040904E4"and the translation line to:
VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252See VERSIONINFO resource for for info.
In the RC file, the nameID does not even have to be a name, it can just bean integer. The filename must be quoted only if it contains a space. Insteadof:
windres my.rc -O coff -o my.resYou can use:
windres my.rc my.o
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