[ros-kernel] Feature freeze

Ge van Geldorp ge at gse.nl
Wed Apr 7 21:12:36 CEST 2004


A request to Nick: could you update your binutils before building the
binaries? The newer windres.exe in that binutils fixes some problems
with icon resources, so that the icons look much better on 32bpp
displays. Below is the message in which Filip describes the problem and
the solution.

Thanks, Gé van Geldorp.

> Filip Navara wrote:
> 
> > As Gé van Geldorp correctly pointed out, the ReactOS icons will not
> > always look correctly (will be displayed in 16 colors). That's
because 
> > there was a bug in windres that was fixed by Martin Fuchs (and me
;-). 
> > In order to have the icons looking correctly you need to use either 
> > the latest Binutils snapshot 
> >
(http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/binutils-2.14.90-20040120-1.tar.gz?down
load) 
> > or my patched version of windres (www.volny.cz/xnavara/updates/).
> >
> > - Filip
>
> Oops, I'm dumb, don't use mine version of windres as it doesn't
contain 
> a workaround for some broken icons like some in our User32. The
official 
> version should be fine.
> 
> - Filip
 




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