There should be a prefixed windres.exe like all the other binaries

[robclouth]

Describe the issue

This is causing issues all over the web. People shouldn't have to copy and rename a file manually to get set up, and it's wasting lots of human hours as people come across the same issue over and over again.

godotengine/godot#40286
#937
dkfans/ADiKtEd#36

Why isn't it renamed automatically?

[timnbraun]

e.g. I've got a little project that builds on ubuntu with cross-tools, or in msys2 with the same Makefile. Except windres - that's borked on msys2.

[Biswa96]

If you are targeting native Windows program use mingw* or clang* environments.

[mati865]

@Biswa96 this is about expecting x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres next to windres.
GCC packages provides normal binaries and ones prefixed with triple but Bunutils package has only normal binaries without prefix.

[akien-mga]

Any chance to see this fixed? #937 was closed but as seen there, many people are having issues with this.

In the Godot project we regularly have users run into this issue with MSYS2, as seen in godotengine/godot#40286. Those are often hard to diagnose with cryptic error messages.

Adding a prefixed windres.exe like Linux distributions of MinGW+GCC do would help a lot with consistency between MinGW distributions:

$ ls /usr/bin/*windres
/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres*
/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres*

[lazka]

we don't ship a cross compiler unlike Linux, so this is kinda expected, no? native binutils on Linux also doesn't prefix its executables.

Not trying to blame other tools here, since we are indeed "special" compare to most mingw providers, but shouldn't scons be taught to avoid trying to cross compile if it actually isn't?