Free Resource Editors, Compilers, Hackers, Icon Editors

Create, edit, compile Windows resources and resource scripts


Free Windows Resource Editors, Resource Compilers, Resource Hackers, Icon Editors

The free resource editors listed on this page allows you to create and edit Windows resources. They may either generate binary Windows resource files (.RES or .OBJ), bind them directly to an executable or DLL, or they may create Windows resource script files. The free resource compilers on this page will compile those Windows resource script files into binary resource files and bind them to your executable or shared library (DLL). The free icon editors allow you to create Windows icons (.ICO files).

If you are looking for a fully-featured resource editor with a WYSIWYG GUI that you can use to create and edit Windows resources (RC files, RES files, Delphi DFM files, EXE files, DLLs, etc) like icons, dialog boxes, cursors, strings, version info resources, Vista PNG icons, bitmap/jpeg images, accelerators, menu resources, etc, you might want to consider the commercial Resource Builder. You may even prefer it to the ones bundled with full developer product suites like Visual Studio Professional 2005, since it's lightweight and does not have some of the limitations of the editors bundled with the compiler packages (like colour/color depth, image sizes, etc).

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Free Windows Resource Editors, Resource Compilers, Icon Editors

Randy's Freeware Icon Editor New

This icon editor for Windows allows you to create 32x32 16 colour icons for Windows.

XN Resource Editor

XN Resource Editor allows you to work with resource files (.RES), PE executables (.EXE, .DLL, etc) and Delphi modules. It comes with source code written in Delphi.

PixelToolbox

PixelToolbox allows you to design icons, wallpapers, patterns and cursors for Windows.

GoRC

This is a free resource compiler for Windows that produces RES or OBJ files from Windows resource files (.rc files).

Icon Suite

This software allows you to create both icons (.ico) and cursor (.cur) files with icons of different sizes (16x16, 32x32, 48x48) and colour depths. You can also import bitmap files to form the basis of your icons or cursors, as well as export your image to bitmap files.

ResourceHacker

Resource Hacker allows you to view, modify, add, delete and extract resources from Win32 executables. It has a built-in resource compiler and decompiler and works with Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000.

Open Source Watcom / OpenWatcom Resource Editor / Compiler

The Watcom C/C++ and Fortran compiler (now called OpenWatcom) comes with a resource compiler for Windows resources as well as a few fairly decent resource editors. There are resource editors for you to create icons, menus, dialog boxes, and so on. The resource editors create RES files (or ICO files if you are creating icons) directly.

LCC-Win32 Resource Editor and Compiler

The LCC-Win32 C Compiler also comes with a resource editor and compiler for you to create Windows resources. If I recall correctly, the last time I checked, it can create dialog boxes, but not binary resources like icons.

Mingw32 Resource Compiler

The MinGW32 compilers come with a fairly decent resource compiler for Windows resources. There is no visual editor though, so you will have to your own resource scripts and have some other means to create ICO files and the like.

Digital Mars Resource Compiler

The Digital Mars C/C++ compiler comes with a resource compiler. The free downloadable versions do not include any resource editor so you will have to write your own resource scripts and create your ICO files elsewhere. At the time I wrote this, the resource compiler (rcc.exe) is located in their dmXXXutil.zip package (where XXX stand for the digits of the current version).

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