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Hello everyone,

I am attempting to use windres to compile a .rc file. The command line I use is:

windres -O coff about1.rc -o about1.res

Windres generates a flurry of (more than 100) messaes each saying "warning: null characters ignored", and then ends by reporting:

"About1.rc:1:syntax error"

This same event happens even if I try to compile an empty .rc file.

I am running in a MinGW environment using the most recent version of Windres and a fresh (as of 12/12) downloac of MinGW.

To further add to the confusion, if I compile EXACTLY the same .rc file using rc.exe, the compiler is happy and generates a usable .res file.

Any ideas what might be going wrong?

Regards,
Mark Allyn
Dec 13 '11 #1
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