invalid option -- J

[yeye]

Hey all,

That's the message I get instantly while I try compiling a new wxWidgets project with GCC.
I looked at the compiler options but never saw that J option.

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||=== test_wxWidgets, Release ===|
||invalid option -- J|
||supported targets: pe-i386 pei-i386 elf32-i386 elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex|
||=== Build finished: 2 errors, 0 warnings ===|

Any idea ?
Thx,
Yéyé

[yeye]

It seems to happen because I don't compile with the provided MinGW but the one from minGW website.
Are'nt they compatibles ?

I only changed the compiler PATH and all the executables seemed to be in place.

Well, I'll try recompile wxWidgets with that MinGW ...

[Jenna]

If you search the forum for ""--J" you should find the solution.

[yeye]

I did search for "-J" and not "-- J", thanks !
But the problem is elsewhere now :

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-------------- Build: Debug in test_wxwidgets ---------------

Compiling: resource.rc
windres.exe: unknown format type `H:\home\commun\dev\libs\wxWidgets-2.8.8\include'
windres.exe: supported formats: rc res coff
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
2 errors, 0 warnings

Windres seems to confound the path and the file

H:\home\commun\dev\libs\wxWidgets-2.8.8\include is the good path (declared in "project build options > search directories > Resource compiler"
wx.rc is at its place in H:\home\commun\dev\libs\wxWidgets-2.8.8\include\wx\msw\

Here is the line-code of resource compiler (after replacing -J by -I)

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$rescomp -i $file -I rc -o $resource_output -O coff $res_includes

Weird, isn't it ?
Yéyé

[MortenMacFly]

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windres.exe: unknown format type `H:\home\commun\dev\libs\wxWidgets-2.8.8\include'

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$rescomp -i $file -I rc -o $resource_output -O coff $res_includes

I don't think so. You tell the resource compiler to include only a path named "rc". The $res_includes is taken as objects. Why? Read the help of windres (simply call windres --help on a console), it says:

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Usage: windres.exe [option(s)] [input-file] [output-file]

As you see: Options first, then *only* input, then *only* output.
You do:

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windres.EXE [option(s)] [input-file] [output-file] [option(s)] 

Which is just wrong.

[yeye]

Well, thanks : I tried to change that command line, but with no success.
Desperated, I tried to change the compiler.

I installed the wxPack2.8 compiled with VC.

when I try to compile a new wxWidgets project on Code::Blocks, I have nearly the same error during the resource compiling :

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-------------- Build: Debug in test_wx2 ---------------

Execution of 'rc.exe /IE:\progs\wxWidgets2.8\include /IE:\progs\wxWidgets2.8\lib\vc_dll\mswud  -foobj\Debug\resource.res resource.rc' in 'H:\home\boulot\dev\cpp\test_wx2' failed.
Nothing to be done.

the file wx.rc is well located : E:\progs\wxWidgets2.8\include\wx\msw\wx.rc.

Did I miss something ?

Yéyé

[stahta01]

Which compiler? What version of it?

Ex. MS VC 8.0 express (2005) or MS VC 9.0 express (2008)


What OS? XP or Vista or what

FYI: Some people had issues using MinGW GCC if source code was over more that one drive.
You have library on E: and project on H:

But, your original problem was an very old copy of windres.exe

Tim S