rsrc VS go-winres

Compare rsrc vs go-winres and see what are their differences.

rsrc

Tool for embedding .ico & manifest resources in Go programs for Windows. (by akavel)

go-winres

Command line tool for adding Windows resources to executable files (by tc-hib)
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1,180 266
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0.0 3.6
12 months ago 16 days ago
Go Go
MIT License BSD Zero Clause License
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rsrc

Posts with mentions or reviews of rsrc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-06.
  • New feature for Go - add method to get the operating system version
    3 projects | /r/golang | 6 Sep 2022
    One problem is, on Windows, this is impossible without bundling your application with a compiled manifest (I use github.com/akavel/rsrc. It's a horrible state of affairs brought about by backwards compatibility, but without it when you ask for a version, you'll get Windows 8 no matter what.
  • Looking for an interesting project to contribute
    20 projects | /r/golang | 15 Jan 2021
    https://github.com/akavel/rsrc/ - could take some support for version info - it's probably currently the most requested feature in it; as to UX my preference would be for passing it via JSON; some basic barebones tests would also be good, I mean to roughly verify that the version actually gets added successfully, via some powershell/vbscript script or something;
  • CLI for Windows with Go
    8 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2020
    When embed data to Go binary, need to prepare syso file. There is a tool called rsrc that will generate syso file for embedding in the rsrc section, so let's use that.

go-winres

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-winres. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rsrc and go-winres you can also consider the following projects:

space-cloud - Open source Firebase + Heroku to develop, scale and secure serverless apps on Kubernetes

go-flutter - Flutter on Windows, MacOS and Linux - based on Flutter Embedding, Go and GLFW.

2goarray - A simple utility to encode a file (or any other data) into a Go byte array.

appify - Create a macOS Application from an executable (like a Go binary)

sdp - A Go implementation of the SDP

Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go

Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

qt - Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly

golive - ⚡ Live views for GoLang with reactive HTML over WebSockets 🔌

taskgo - Fast and simple terminal based Kanban board manager

golangci-lint-action - Official GitHub action for golangci-lint from its authors

icoextract - Extract icons from Windows PE files (.exe/.dll)