Hello!

I made a simple Win32-application without resource section, but when I add an empty resource section the program doesn't run anymore. When I fill the resource section with data it runs again. Is this a bug in fasm or is this just my mistake?

WiESi

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a windows issue - windows is VERY picky about the resource section of a PE file. Which windows version did you try?

I guess adding an empty resource section will make FASM set the resource PE directory entry to point at the empty section. The empty section will (obviously) not hold a correct resource tree, and some windows versions will bitch terribly at this.

I tried it under Windows XP Home Edition SP 1. I think you could be right with your explanation as I observed other strange behaviours under Windows.

There was another topic about this, empty resource sections defined with "section '.blah' data resource readable" just dont work well with Windows.

I once had similar problem. I just forgot that in fasm you have to specify all sections' characteristics yourself. Check if it's readable