Re: msvc build is crashing on startup

[Andrey Zhdanov]

David Robinow wrote:
> Good for you. I can't get that far. I haven't been able to get a
> working MSVC build for several months. I haven't had time to
> investigate why.
>
> rc -i../nt -Foobj/i386/emacs.res ../nt/emacs.rc
> ../nt/emacs.rc(1) : error RC2176 : old DIB in icons\emacs.ico; pass it
> through SDKPAINT
>
Right, I stuck there too. In short - just overwrite emacs.ico
with emacs22.ico.
Long way to fix that original .ico is to edit it in some icon editor
and remove compression from largest (vista) icon (store it as bitmap,
not png) That because resource compiler from vs 2003 does not accept pngs.

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