alternate method of injecting the icon through a resource file, no ex…

…tra deps

helix-term/Cargo.toml

@@ -81,10 +81,6 @@ crossterm = { version = "0.27", features = ["event-stream", "use-dev-tty"] }
 [build-dependencies]
 helix-loader = { path = "../helix-loader" }
 
-[target.'cfg(windows)'.build-dependencies]
-# winres to inject icon into Windows binary
-winres = "0.1.12"
-
 [dev-dependencies]
 smallvec = "1.11"
 indoc = "2.0.4"

helix-term/build.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-extern crate winres;
-
 use helix_loader::grammar::{build_grammars, fetch_grammars};
 
 fn main() {
@@ -8,9 +6,14 @@ fn main() {
         build_grammars(Some(std::env::var("TARGET").unwrap()))
             .expect("Failed to compile tree-sitter grammars");
     }
+
+    // link icon to windows executable
     if cfg!(target_os = "windows") {
-        let mut res = winres::WindowsResource::new();
-        res.set_icon("../contrib/helix-256p.ico");
-        res.compile().unwrap();
+        // fetch manifest dir from env var set by Cargo:
+        let manifest_dir = std::env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").expect("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR should be set by Cargo");
+
+        // link against the helix-icon-windows library from contrib dir:
+        println!("cargo:rustc-link-search=native={}", manifest_dir.replace("helix-term", "contrib"));
+        println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=helix-icon-windows");
     }
 }