First step toward alpha 4: we no longer need the Windows resource trick.

link_windows_386.go

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 package ui
 
-// #cgo LDFLAGS: ${SRCDIR}/libui_windows_386.a ${SRCDIR}/libui_windows_386.res.o
+// #cgo LDFLAGS: ${SRCDIR}/libui_windows_386.a
 // /* note the order; also note the lack of uuid */
 // #cgo LDFLAGS: -luser32 -lkernel32 -lusp10 -lgdi32 -lcomctl32 -luxtheme -lmsimg32 -lcomdlg32 -ld2d1 -ldwrite -lole32 -loleaut32 -loleacc -static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++
 import "C"

link_windows_amd64.go

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 package ui
 
-// #cgo LDFLAGS: ${SRCDIR}/libui_windows_amd64.a ${SRCDIR}/libui_windows_amd64.res.o
+// #cgo LDFLAGS: ${SRCDIR}/libui_windows_amd64.a
 // /* note the order; also note the lack of uuid */
 // #cgo LDFLAGS: -luser32 -lkernel32 -lusp10 -lgdi32 -lcomctl32 -luxtheme -lmsimg32 -lcomdlg32 -ld2d1 -ldwrite -lole32 -loleaut32 -loleacc -static -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++
 import "C"

main.go

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import "C"
 // make sure main() runs on the first thread created by the OS
 // if main() calls Main(), things will just work on macOS, where the first thread created by the OS is the only thread allowed to be the main GUI thread
 // we might as well lock the OS thread for the other platforms here too (though on those it doesn't matter *which* thread we lock to)
+// TODO describe the source of this trick
 func init() {
 	runtime.LockOSThread()
 }

static.rc

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-/* 5 june 2016 */
-#pragma code_page(65001)
-1 24 "static.manifest"