[Libreoffice] Question about VersionInfo resource of Windows executables

[Andras Timar]

2011/12/12 Bjoern Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com>:
> Hi Andras,
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:12:32PM +0100, Andras Timar wrote:
>> OK, I thought so, thanks for confirming. Can you maybe explain the
>> specific example, where I had the bug yesterday, i.e. ucbhelper was
>> the only gbuildified module that tried to make VersionInfo resource
>> from shlinfo.rc, but only under MinGW, and even there it was not
>> linked. If I understood this example, it would help me to understand
>> the whole concept better.
>
> Unfortunately, I can not really. All I know about windows native resources is
> that they provide info for the File->Properties on Windows Explorer. I didnt
> implement that stuff, nor used it yet, so I know nothing more than everybody
> else about them, sorry.
>

No problem, I'm digging into the problem, and I feel that the solution
will be trivial. The building blocks seem to be there, we just need to
use them properly.

Thanks,
Andras