Can anyone point me to some resources on how to add an icon to your windows executable?

# kotlin-native

[Patrick]

Can anyone point me to some resources on how to add an icon to your windows executable?

[Dico]

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/native_software.html#native_binaries:windows-resources

[jk2018]

Would like to do the same sooner or later.. Any success? @Patrick?

[Patrick]

Where exactly do the windows-resources have to be added?

[Dico]

Try src/main/resources/resources.rc

[Patrick]

Thanks, but where do the gradle properties have to be added?

[Patrick]

model {
    components {
        main(NativeLibrarySpec) {
            sources {
                rc {
                    source {
                        srcDirs "src/main/rc"
                        include "**/*.rc"
                    }
                    exportedHeaders {
                        srcDirs "src/main/include"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

[Patrick]

I'm not sure where in the structure to add this

[Dico]

What gradle properties?

[Dico]

You mean the version number?

[Dico]

Use the process resources task, supplying a token

[Patrick]

Do I not have to add the location of the .rc file to gradle? I thought that's what the link is about.

[Dico]

Then use @token-name@ in the rc file

[Patrick]

What's the process resources task?

[Patrick]

Sorry, I'm new to gradle

[Dico]

You already have a file glob matching the rc file in the build config

[Patrick]

kotlin {
mingwX64("windows") {

    binaries {

        executable {
            entryPoint("main")
        }
}

[Dico]

Google it, documentation can explain it better than I

[Patrick]

This is the gradle configuration. I couldn't figure out what to do reading the documentation.

[Patrick]

I have to tell gradle where my resource files are, right?

[Patrick]

But I'm not sure how

[Dico]

Interop with kotlin binaries may not be supported. You may be able to do it with linker arguments for the linking task

[Patrick]

Does that mean I should use command line options to link it after the compile step?

[Dico]

it's something I'd suggest looking into.