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ico bug on Windows

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Cc: David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com>
Subject: ico bug on Windows
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:56:28 -0500

David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com> has reported a build failure on MS
Visual Studio, apparently due to change in the Windows icon file format.

David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 fails at:
>
> rc -i../nt -Foobj-spd/i386/emacs.res ../nt/emacs.rc
> ../nt/emacs.rc(1) : error RC2176 : old DIB in icons\emacs.ico; pass it
> through SDKPAINT
>
> This error has been present ever since the new icon was added.  I'd
> forgotten about it since I reverted to the Emacs 22 icon for my daily
> builds.  I don't know a good fix.

Message #14 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 2172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#2172: ico bug on Windows
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:06:15 +0900

Chong Yidong wrote:
> David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com> has reported a build failure on MS
> Visual Studio, apparently due to change in the Windows icon file format.
>   

I think it is time to stop caring about MS Visual Studio. GCC has been 
available for Windows for close to 10 years now.

Message #24 received at 2172 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>, 2172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, drobinow <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#2172: ico bug on Windows
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:10:21 +0200

> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com>
> 
> Chong Yidong wrote:
> > David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com> has reported a build failure on MS
> > Visual Studio, apparently due to change in the Windows icon file format.
> >   
> 
> I think it is time to stop caring about MS Visual Studio. GCC has been 
> available for Windows for close to 10 years now.

If we decide to do that, we should state the non-support in NEWS and
in nt/INSTALL.

Message #29 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, 2172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2172: ico bug on Windows
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 01:35:28 -0500

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On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> Chong Yidong wrote:
>>
>> David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com> has reported a build failure on MS
>> Visual Studio, apparently due to change in the Windows icon file format.
>>
>
> I think it is time to stop caring about MS Visual Studio. GCC has been
> available for Windows for close to 10 years now.
>
You won't get any argument from me. I only compile with it because
nobody else seemed to. I use gcc on three of my four Windows machines.

I have created an icon that works, sort of. I used png2ico.exe (GPL)
from http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/
It looked good enough on my XP system, but not so great on Vista
compared to the original. Perhaps it can be included as an option for
use with MSVC.
After overwriting emacs.ico the compile works fine. (Of course, it's a
simple matter to change the desktop shortcuts back to the original
icon)

[emacs.ico.2003 (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

Message #41 received at 2172 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com>, 2172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2172: ico bug on Windows
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:56:27 -0500

David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I have created an icon that works, sort of. I used png2ico.exe (GPL)
> from http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/ It looked good
> enough on my XP system, but not so great on Vista compared to the
> original. Perhaps it can be included as an option for use with MSVC.
> After overwriting emacs.ico the compile works fine. (Of course, it's a
> simple matter to change the desktop shortcuts back to the original
> icon)

Jason, would it be possible for you to try changing the .ico file, along
the lines described by David, so that the MS compiler is happy with it?
Normally we should not go out of our way to accomodate MS Visual studio,
but this seems to be a moderately easy fix.

If you can't fix this and/or would prefer to drop support for MSVS
instead, could you please update nt/INSTALL and etc/PROBLEMS with the
information in this bug report?  Thanks.

Message #46 received at 2172 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: David Robinow <drobinow <at> gmail.com>, 2172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2172: ico bug on Windows
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:10:38 +0900

Chong Yidong wrote:
> Jason, would it be possible for you to try changing the .ico file, along
> the lines described by David, so that the MS compiler is happy with it?
> Normally we should not go out of our way to accomodate MS Visual studio,
> but this seems to be a moderately easy fix.
>   

I don't think providing an inferior icon is a good fix just for the one 
or two people who still compile Emacs with outdated proprietary compilers.

> If you can't fix this and/or would prefer to drop support for MSVS
> instead, could you please update nt/INSTALL and etc/PROBLEMS with the
> information in this bug report?  Thanks.


I've already detailed the workarounds in etc/PROBLEMS.

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