With our Delphi 2007 projects, we are using the Microsoft resource compiler (rc.exe) instead of brcc32.exe. It's one of the steps that we needed to do to get the Vista style icons compiled into our applications. With FB6, it compiles correctly, in FB7, we get errors. The .rc file generated by FB7 (7.0.0.515) is different than the .rc file generated by FB6.
This is a sample .rc file that FB6 had generated for my app.
MAINICON ICON "C:\\source\\myapp.ico"1 VERSIONINFOFILEVERSION 9,16,0,420PRODUCTVERSION 9,16,0,420FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3FLFILEFLAGS 0x00LFILEOS 0x40004LFILETYPE 0x1LFILESUBTYPE 0x0LBEGIN BLOCK "StringFileInfo" BEGIN BLOCK "040904E4" BEGIN VALUE "CompanyName", "My Company\0" VALUE "FileDescription", "My App\0" VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright © 2010.\0" VALUE "FileVersion", "9.16.0.420\0" VALUE "CompileDate", "Monday, August 09, 2010 10:34 AM\0" END END BLOCK "VarFileInfo" BEGIN VALUE "Translation", 0x0409, 1252 ENDEND
This is what was generated for the same project with FB7:
MAINICON ICON "C:\\source\\myapp.ico"1 VERSIONINFOFILEVERSION 9,16,0,420PRODUCTVERSION FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3FLFILEFLAGS 0x00LFILEOS 0x4LFILETYPE 0x1LFILESUBTYPE 0x0LBEGIN BLOCK "StringFileInfo" BEGIN BLOCK "040904E4" BEGIN VALUE "CompanyName", "My Company\0" VALUE "FileDescription", "My App\0" VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright C 2010.\0" END END BLOCK "VarFileInfo" BEGIN VALUE "Translation", 0x0409, 1252 ENDEND
There are a few differences between them. The non-working one is missing the version number for PRODUCTVERSION, the copyright symbol in LegalCopyright was changed from "©" to "C", FILEOS was changed from 0x40004 to 0x4, and FileVersion and CompileDate are missing from StringFileInfo. We end up with the following error when we compile our app with FB7:
myapp.rc(5) : error RC2127 : version WORDs separated by commas expectedmyapp.rc(5) : error RC2167 : unrecognized VERSIONINFO field; BEGIN or comma expected