Windres Documentation?

[Tonyb <tonylindee at yahoo dot com>]

I'm (still) having difficulties while trying to attempt some windows
programing using gcc and minGW.  Most of my problems center around getting
resource (.rc) files accepted by gcc.  I find little documentation available
to help me.  And what I have found hasn't been sufficient.  

For instance:  certain keywords seem to be acceptable to windres -
  IDR_MYMENU  MENU  DISCARDABLE
  BEGIN
    POPUP   "&File"
  etc.

But others cause a windres syntax error.  Such as -
  STYLE  DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
  CAPTION  "My About Box"
  FONT 8,  "MS SANS Serif"
cause problems.

The code I'm using is taken from
http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/dialogs.html, theForger's Win32 API
Programming Tutorial.  So I expect it to be code that should work.

I haven't found minWG specific documentation describing these windows
keywords either.  Where's that at?

I've hunted around http://www.mingw.org/wiki for help and haven't exactly
found what I think I need.  However, I have found notes to make me question
whether I need to reinstall some things.  Particularly in Getting Started it
says, "The preferred installation target directory is C:\MinGW"   I find my
stuff in C:\CigWin\bin  and C:\CigWin\lib.  I installed gnu several years
ago, and I remember it being rather long and tedious, with various questions
popping up that I mostly had to guess at or use the default.  I hate to go
through it again, since I have little faith that it is going to help me find
the information I'm looking for.  Of course, it just might make some of my
problems magically disappear!  





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