Resources and packers

hi,

this is a silly question, and i know i should already know that...

when coding a pe packer, what i should preserve from resource section to gui appz continue working? just the top-level directory entries, or also the directory pointed by these? (i know i must also preserve the icon)

so far, all my pe packers work well for console appz, but fail miserably with programs that dare to use resources

thanks in advance,
ancev

[redbull]

Some clues might be gathered from the UPX source code

Here are some interesting aticles for you

Relocation stripper and source
hxxp://www.jrsoftware.org/striprlc.php

Also check out the Morphine v2.7b src

Here is a story on Woodmann about the resource seciton
hxxp://www.woodmann.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4909&highlight=write+packer

Here is Writing Your Own Packer - by BigBoote
http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=security&ID=256


However all those articles dont quite answer your questions fully

Hope this helps!