[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/12369 Updated rcedit.exe, fixing #38 "Virus scanners raise false alarm on game

[Ralph Versteegen]

Hah! Looks like it... I went through the buglist and started making plans
for fixing other bugs! There's one in particular I may need to fix as it
would prevent one method of embedding data files into game.exe.

...and that's the reason I went to the trouble of installing VS2015 instead
of writing a simple function to fix the checksum myself, after first
struggling to get rcedit to compile with my trusty VS2010 Express (actually
runs on XP) by removing some C++14-isms (turns out I don't know C++ well
anymore!) What a nightmare! Microsoft helpfully intentionally broke their
VS2015 installer (it downloads files and checks their SHA-1 hashes!
Intolerably insecure!!!) so instead I had to wait half a day for a huge
.iso to download (4 marginally different versions of the Windows 10 SDK! A
complete Android SDK!)...


On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 01:55, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> Yay!
>
> Uh oh, does that officially make you the maintainer of rcedit? Whoever
> touched it last! :D
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 9:32 AM <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> teeemcee
>> 2021-09-06 06:32:49 -0700 (Mon, 06 Sep 2021)
>> 700
>> Updated rcedit.exe, fixing #38 "Virus scanners raise false alarm on
>> game.exe when a game icon is embedded"
>>
>> The fix is to update the .exe checksum.
>>
>> I've dubbed this rcedit version 1.1.1, which is the most recent official
>> git
>> tag, though the .exe itself still thinks it's v0.2.0, as they never
>> updated it.
>>
>> Compiled the following commit using VS2015 with v140_xp toolset, with
>> debug info
>> disabled and size-optimized to reduce the filesize (although still 4x
>> larger
>> than before):
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/rversteegen/rcedit/commit/25f3561d8150e39d7698579c360c371bc813b9e5
>> PR submitted to rcedit but it hasn't been actively maintained for a
>> couple years.
>> I've also updated the rcedit.zip download on HR.com.
>> ---
>> U   wip/common.rbas
>> U   wip/distribmenu.bas
>> A   wip/support/rcedit-version.txt
>> UU  wip/support/rcedit.exe
>> U   wip/whatsnew.txt
>>
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