What is the current status in 2026 regarding adding icons to Windows executables?
⚓ Rust 📅 2026-02-07 👤 surdeus 👁️ 1What are the currently available options for adding icons to .exe files in Rust?
I am looking for a relatively simple method that would work in GitHub CI.
I did some research online and most of the methods only work on Windows, while some of my jobs cross-compile from Linux to Windows.
I used editpe and built a simple CLI tool to add icons. On Linux, created binaries, through Wine, worked without issues, but on Windows the icons were not visible.
Then I used rcedit.exe. In that case, one application worked fine on Windows, while another one crashed. On Linux, both crashed with a strange stack overflow.
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