Cannot bundle Windows EXE icon (SOLVED)

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Trying to bundle for windows with bob, I get this (and no changed EXE icon):

Error - 5 icon(s) not replaced in /Users/da_petcu21/Work/icon-test/meow/icon-test/icontest.exe using /Users/da_petcu21/Work/icon-test/AppIcon.ico

Here’s the icons I used:

Archive.zip (198.6 KB)

I tried using the sizes listed here, but it made no difference:

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2019-12-04%2002_38_45-IcoFX
2019-12-04%2002_38_45-IcoFX594×582 36 KB
2019-12-04%2002_38_53-IcoFX
2019-12-04%2002_38_53-IcoFX594×557 40.8 KB

Try saving an .ico with this software with this version (it’s free) and setting disabled. The no compress Win Vista is the important part.

These sizes

2019-12-04%2002_40_50-IcoFX
2019-12-04%2002_40_50-IcoFX886×784 81.9 KB

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It seems to have worked now with that option unchecked. Thanks a lot!

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Doesn’t this service provide a working .ico file?

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I haven’t tried with that service. I generated my ico with https://www.icoconverter.com, then added the 8-bit versions with IcoFX. It worked after unchecking “Compress images for Windows Vista”.

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For those folks, who is working on Linux, here is instruction how to convert .png to .ico:

  1. You can use Imagemagick (sudo apt install imagemagick)
    1.1 And specifically convert tool
  2. Use this command. Take notice of -compress None and list of sizes
convert icon_256x256px.png -compress None -define icon:auto-resize=256,128,96,64,48,32,24,16 favicon.ico
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