Change EXE's icon; not so easy

[NewWin32]

I was given this workspace with many projects; I said I could change the icon of the Executable. Easy I thought (and said to my friend), just find the RC file and make the appropriate changes.

Not so easy, their is no .RC file, no resources at all, so I had to forget the LoadIcon( hWnd, MAKEINTRESOURCE( IDC_MY_ICON ) );

Even adding a "resource | icon" simply added a "ico" file in the project tree.


-> So how can I change the icon of the EXE displayed in explorer (and shortcuts)?.

I did found a WinMain, but it is one like I never saw before. Basicly I have only the hInstance, Here is the code:

S32 PASCAL WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE, LPSTR lpszCmdLine, S32)
{
   Vector<char *> argv;
   char moduleName[256];
   GetModuleFileName(NULL, moduleName, sizeof(moduleName));
   argv.push_back(moduleName);

   for (const char* word,*ptr = lpszCmdLine; *ptr; )  {
      // Eat white space
      for (; dIsspace(*ptr) && *ptr; ptr++)
         ;
      // Pick out the next word
      for (word = ptr; !dIsspace(*ptr) && *ptr; ptr++)
         ;
      // Add the word to the argument list.
      if (*word) {
         int len = ptr - word;
         char *arg = (char *) dMalloc(len + 1);
         dStrncpy(arg, word, len);
         arg[len] = 0;
         argv.push_back(arg);
      }
   }

   winState.appInstance = hInstance;

   S32 retVal = run(argv.size(), (const char **) argv.address());
   
   for(U32 j = 1; j < argv.size(); j++)
      dFree(argv[j]);

   return retVal;
}

If you are wondering this is from "GarageGames" Torque 3D engine, my friend is making a small game just for fun (he is not a professional coder, but a real good amateur).

This might help, the "winState" structure (but I am not sure of the initialization order ....)

struct Win32PlatState
{
   FILE *log_fp;
   HINSTANCE hinstOpenGL;
   HINSTANCE hinstGLU;
   HINSTANCE hinstOpenAL;
   HWND appWindow;
   HDC appDC;
   HINSTANCE appInstance;
   HGLRC hGLRC;
   DWORD processId;

   S32 desktopBitsPixel;
   S32 desktopWidth;
   S32 desktopHeight;
   U32 currentTime;
   
   Win32PlatState();
};

Win32PlatState winState;

Any insight appreciated ...