Hello,
It seems the .rsrc section is ignored when it comes from an library member for all Windows targets. I have quiet a variety win32/win64 targets (i686-w64-mingw32, i686-pc-mingw32, i686-pc-cygwin, x86_64-w64-mingw32) from cygwin32. I have also tested a fresh compile of i686-w64-mingw32-ld from binutils-2.4 and from binutils-git, all with the same result.
Best regards,
-- GB.