Changing the icon in Eclipse Windows launcher

Here's the official page on Eclipse branding:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Branding/branding-your-application.html

Yes, it's from 2004. It explains how to give icons/branding to your Eclipse RCP product.  It's quite straightforward.

The tricky bit is to get your custom icon into the Exe launcher that Eclipse P2 build creates for your app.  This is because at the end of the build Eclipse just copies over Eclipse.exe, and renames it if/as necessary. This .exe contains stock eclipse icons.

The above web-site does include guidance in how to use/run a compilable exe that's included in the Eclipse SDK.  But, I couldn't get the exe to compile in MS Windows, OSX or Ubuntu.

So, I've found another way:

• Use IconSlate to produce a .ico file that contains images at 16,32,64 and 256 pixel height/widths.

• Open a Windows VM, and use Resource Hacker to open a copy of the stock .exe.  Then right-click on an icon, and select "Replace Resource..."

• Introduce an Ant build stage that copies the shiny new exe into the target deployment directory, overwriting the standard Eclipse one.

Sorted.