App icon when testing build

When I use CTRL+B to build the game in defold during development, is there a way to preview a favicon without having to fully make a production build?

I have set the App Icon in game.project > Windows to assets/favicon.ico (which exists) but nothing happens.

Even when building for Windows with a release build, the app icon still doesn’t work/show up. I used IcoFX as mentioned here and made sure to change the option setting so that it did not compress for Windows Vista (I’m on Windows 11 though)

The icon in the windows title bar AND the taskbar both don’t work

Recommend using the Defold Icon Maker instead.

Bare in mind that Windows caches icons so changes sometimes don’t show up right away.

AFAIK there’s not a way to embed your favicon in CTRL+B builds.

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