The resource compiler, rcomp, compiles source rss resource files into a rsc resource data file which can be used by applications, and a rsg resource header file. The operation of the resource compiler is usually wrapped in an abld batch file. That provides the most commonly used rcomp functionality, but does not provide some of the debugging options available directly through rcomp.
Note: From Symbian^4 onwards, rcomp supports long strings and supplementary characters (not included in code point range of BMP) of the range 0x10000 to 0x10ffff in rss files.
Arguments
-v |
verbose output. |
-p |
parser debugging |
-l |
Check localisation comments |
-force |
Emit warnings if the localisation comment tags are not present |
-u |
generate Unicode resource binary |
-o DataOutputFile |
Specify full path and name for data output file DataOutputFile. If this is not specified, no data output file is created. |
[-{uid2,uid3 }] |
Second and third UIDs for the resource file |
-h HeaderOutputFile |
Specify header output file HeaderOutputFile; this is the name only, and does not include the path. If this is not specified, no header output file is created. |
-s SourceFileName |
Specify resource compiler source file SourceFileName (output of pre-processor BaseInputFileName.rpp). If not specified, or specified as -s-, source is read from the standard input. |
-i BaseInputFileName |
The file given to the pre-processor |
Output files
DataOutputFile |
The resource data referred to by the application at run-time. Note that the generated file can have any name. However, before the resource file can be used it must be renamed to have an extension .rsc. |
HeaderOutputFile |
The generated header file, which contains #define statements for each resource defined in the source file. |