[lazarus] More details about Win32 makefile andmakefile.fpc problems

[Michael A. Hess]

Peter Vreman wrote:
> 
> > As to the windres not building issue. I made sure I had the latest
> > version of make.exe and it didn't act any differently. Here is the
> > exact output from a make call when lazarus.res does not exist. The
> > same command made outside of the make environment works just fine.
> > {line breaks added to make it more readable}
> >
> >
> > windres -i lazarus.rc -o lazarus.res
> >
> > GCC.EXE: installation problem, cannot exec 'cpp': No such file or
> > directory
> >
> > windres: no resources
> >
> > MAKE.EXE[1]: *** [lazarus.res] Error 1
> 
> windres requires the preprocessor from gcc, any cpp.exe would be
> enough.
> It's a known problem. The best case would to have a resource compiler
> not depending on other executables.

But that is the point. I have gcc.exe and cpp.exe located in the
\pp\bin\win32 directory. It should be able to find them.

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