[Caml-list] (possibly OT) Can ocamlopt generate an icon for a Win32 exe?

[Caml-list] (possibly OT) Can ocamlopt generate an icon for a Win32 exe?

[Richard Jones]

I'm sorry if this question is off-topic. Is there a way that ocamlopt
can be told to attach an icon to a Win32 executable?

Rich.

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Re: [Caml-list] (possibly OT) Can ocamlopt generate an icon for a Win32 exe?

[Karl Zilles]

Richard Jones wrote:
> I'm sorry if this question is off-topic. Is there a way that ocamlopt
> can be told to attach an icon to a Win32 executable?

Yes.  What you're really asking is, can you attach resources to an ocaml 
executable.

Generate a .res file with your icon in it.  You can either do this with 
a number of IDE tools, or by creating a .rc file and compiling it with 
"rc" the resource compiler.

Then run the program "cvtres" (mine is in /Program Files/Microsoft 
Visual Studio/VC98/Bin/.  If you are using cygwin, then there is a 
program called "windres" which is supposed to do the same thing with 
different arguments)

cvtres /OUT:myresources.obj myresources.res

This generates an obj file you can just include in the compile:

ocamlopt source.ml moresource.ml myresources.obj


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