The info below probably obvious to most of you programmers, but I am starting to learn C (and trying to get away from the Visual Basic crap) and just figured out how to change my console application's icon with mingw/gcc so I figured I would share:
1) Create a file with a single line on it like so:
1 ICON myicon.ico2) Save the file as myicon.rc
3) Navigate to your mingw bin folder via the command line (like C:\MinGW\bin) and run the tool "windres.exe" like so:
windres myicon.rc myicon.o4) This will create a new myicon.o file that you can use with gcc during your compile.
5) Add "myicon.o" to your compile like so: gcc -o helloworld.exe helloworld.c myicon.o
Enjoy! Your application now has a cool icon of your choice. Better than the boring default 8).
Credits to
fragglet for a more detailed article.
