Launch4j / windres: how to set paths correctly?

Question

I have launch4j configure for my project. I used it back, when i developed on windowsXP, where it worked. Now i need it to build on mac as well:

My build.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<project default="create-exe">

    <property name="platform" value="win32"/>
    <property name="launch4j.dir" location="${basedir}/tools/launch4j/" />

    <include file="create-jar.xml" as="sub"/>

    <target name="create-exe" depends = "sub.create-jar">
        <launch4j configFile="launch4j-config.xml" />
        <delete file="client.win32.jar"/>
    </target>

    <taskdef name="launch4j" classname="net.sf.launch4j.ant.Launch4jTask">
        <classpath>
            <pathelement path="tools/launch4j/launch4j.jar"/>
            <pathelement path="tools/launch4j/lib/xstream.jar"/>
        </classpath>
    </taskdef>
</project>

I get the following output:

create-exe:
 [launch4j] Compiling resources
 [launch4j] Generated resource file...
 [launch4j] LANGUAGE 0, 1
 [launch4j] 2 RCDATA BEGIN "1.6.0\0" END
 [launch4j] 18 RCDATA BEGIN "0\0" END
 [launch4j] 25 RCDATA BEGIN "512\0" END
 [launch4j] 27 RCDATA BEGIN "1024\0" END
 [launch4j] 21 RCDATA BEGIN "http://java.com/download\0" END
 [launch4j] 20 RCDATA BEGIN "32\0" END
 [launch4j] 9 RCDATA BEGIN "true\0" END
 [launch4j] 101 RCDATA BEGIN "An error occurred while starting the application.\0" END
 [launch4j] 102 RCDATA BEGIN "This application was configured to use a bundled Java Runtime Environment but the runtime is missing or corrupted.\0" END
 [launch4j] 103 RCDATA BEGIN "This application requires a Java Runtime Environment\0" END
 [launch4j] 104 RCDATA BEGIN "The registry refers to a nonexistent Java Runtime Environment installation or the runtime is corrupted.\0" END
 [launch4j] 17 RCDATA BEGIN "true\0" END

BUILD FAILED
/Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/create-win32-exe.xml:9: net.sf.launch4j.BuilderException: net.sf.launch4j.ExecException: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "./bin/windres": error=2, No such file or directory

When i add bindir="tools/launch4j/bin" to the launch4j-execution, ld and windres are found, and the output changes to:

create-exe:
 [launch4j] Compiling resources
 [launch4j] Linking
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./w32api/crt2.o: No such file or directory
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./head/guihead.o: No such file or directory
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./head/head.o: No such file or directory
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./w32api/libmingw32.a: No such file or directory
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./w32api/libgcc.a: No such file or directory
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./w32api/libmsvcrt.a: No such file or directory
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./w32api/libkernel32.a: No such file or directory
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./w32api/libuser32.a: No such file or directory
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./w32api/libadvapi32.a: No such file or directory
 [launch4j] /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld: cannot find ./w32api/libshell32.a: No such file or directory

BUILD FAILED
/Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/create-win32-exe.xml:9: net.sf.launch4j.BuilderException: net.sf.launch4j.ExecException: Exec failed (1): /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/tools/launch4j/bin/ld -mi386pe --oformat pei-i386 --dynamicbase --nxcompat --no-seh --subsystem windows -s ./w32api/crt2.o ./head/guihead.o ./head/head.o /var/folders/n5/44dkvyzd00z0h5mklk_pwtch0000gn/T/launch4j3026065429236284429o ./w32api/libmingw32.a ./w32api/libgcc.a ./w32api/libmsvcrt.a ./w32api/libkernel32.a ./w32api/libuser32.a ./w32api/libadvapi32.a ./w32api/libshell32.a -o /Users/fabian/dev/rsys-client/Kassa.exe

Total time: 6 seconds

Answer 1

For those that experience the:

error=2, No such file or directory

issue when running windres on 64-bit Linux, you will need to install 32-bit libraries. On Linux Mint I installed the package ia32-libs with:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs