id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
2585,"New versions of windres fail with ""windres: CreateProcess (null): No error""",igloo,,"Initially reported here:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2008-September/044944.html

This version of windres:
{{{
windres.exe -V
GNU windres 2.17.50 20060824
}}}

fails with:

{{{
Linking dist\build\haddock\haddock.exe ...
*** Windres:
C:\ghc\ghc-6.9.20080905\bin/windres
--preprocessor=""C:\ghc\ghc-6.9.20080905\gcc""
 ""-BC:\ghc\ghc-6.9.20080905\gcc-lib/"" ""-E"" ""-xc"" ""-DRC_INVOKED""
--use-temp-file
--input=C:\DOCUME~1\nmitche6\LOCALS~1\Temp\/ghc704_0/ghc704_0.rc
--output=C:\DOC
UME~1\nmitche6\LOCALS~1\Temp\/ghc704_0/ghc704_0.o --output-format=coff
C:\ghc\ghc-6.9.20080905\bin/windres: CreateProcess (null): No error
}}}

`GNU windres 2.15.91 20040904` works fine.
",bug,closed,high,6.10.1,Compiler,6.9,fixed,,neil.mitchell.2@… shelarcy@…,Unknown/Multiple,Unknown/Multiple,,Unknown,,,,