Add ICO icon to clion MinGW compiled EXE file

Prepare for compilation

We generate it directly after normal compilation exe There is no icon

So many exe The programs have personality icons, so vs and qt Is relatively simple, but in Clion How can I add it in compilation ?

Prerequisite , This machine must be configured MinGW, And the environment variables are also added

After my own research, I found , We need to create one ico.rc The files are placed in the root directory of the project , Then add some configuration information to this file

id ICON "logo.ico"   // Add Icon 

#include <winver.h>

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
    FILEVERSION 1,0,0,10
    PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,10
    FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
#ifdef _DEBUG
    FILEFLAGS VS_FF_DEBUG
#else
    FILEFLAGS 0x0L
#endif
    FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
    FILETYPE VFT_DLL
    FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
        BEGIN
            BLOCK "080404b0"  // Support Chinese 
            BEGIN
                VALUE "CompanyName", "*** Co., LTD. \0"
                VALUE "FileDescription", " Software name \0"
                VALUE "FileVersion", "1.0.0.10\0"
                VALUE "ProductVersion", "1.0.0.10\0"
                VALUE "LegalCopyright", " copyright  (C) *** Co., LTD. \0"
                VALUE "LegalTrademarks", "*** Co., LTD. \0"
                VALUE "OriginalFilename", "version.exe\0"
                VALUE "ProductName", " Software name \0"
                VALUE "InternalName", "version.exe\0"
           END
        END
        
        BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
        BEGIN
            VALUE "Translation", 0x804, 1200  // Language - Simplified Chinese 
        END        
    END

Fillet making , Circle making , ioc Picture making

1. compile ico.rc>ico.o

Then name the icon logo.ico Put it in the root of the project , After that, we need to ico.rc The file is compiled as ico.o

windres -i "ico.rc" -o "ico.o"  

Then there are two ways , Manual packing exe And use Clion compile exe , The following picture is the project structure and main file

2. Compile to executable exe

Manually compile

Go to the root directory of the project and

gcc  module/calculate/calculate.c  module/str/str.c  ico.o -g -o  main  main.c

Be careful : module/calculate/calculate.c module/str/str.c These are all main.c The dependent files of , You need to take it with you when packing , and ico.o You need to compile into exe It doesn't take effect until it's finished

Clion compile

Then we compile , Icons and information will be added to exe It's in

effect

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Detailed information garbled code solution

What's the problem ? This is because windows The default is ANSI code , And what we use is UTF-8 Compilation of ico.rc file

Solution use NotePad++ take ico.rc Of documents UTF-8 Code to ANSI code , then Ctrl+s preservation

Then follow the above tutorial , take ioc.rc Recompile to ioc.o file , Then repackage the project as .exe , The effect is as follows :

modify exe Invalid Icon

When we want to put exe Replace the icon of with another icon , Find new icons as long as they have the same name as the old icons , It will automatically become an old icon , This is because windows,ico Cache issues

terms of settlement stay cmd Just enter the command in

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f     
cd /d %userprofile%\appdata\local
del iconcache.db /a
start explorer.exe
exit

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