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by ItFinallyWorks
Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:30 am
Forum: The Code Dump
Topic: Cross platform embedding of resources
Replies: 11
Views: 10799

it is possible to embed resources in an elf binary(linux executable). objcopy for instance will create a .o which can be linked to your elf executable like any other. That's interesting. I didn't know you could do that. I know its fairly common on windows (that's how you get those nice icons on the...
by ItFinallyWorks
Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:43 pm
Forum: The Code Dump
Topic: Cross platform embedding of resources
Replies: 11
Views: 10799

it is possible to embed resources in an elf binary(linux executable). objcopy for instance will create a .o which can be linked to your elf executable like any other. That's interesting. I didn't know you could do that. I know its fairly common on windows (that's how you get those nice icons on the...
by ItFinallyWorks
Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:49 am
Forum: The Code Dump
Topic: Cross platform embedding of resources
Replies: 11
Views: 10799

I never did it this way... I always used the "cat" style. wxwidgets: cat example.exe.tmp example.zip > example.exe The cat program is originally a unix program, but there is a windows version for it. I see how that works, but how do you get the data out from within your program? Do you op...
by ItFinallyWorks
Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:52 pm
Forum: The Code Dump
Topic: Cross platform embedding of resources
Replies: 11
Views: 10799

Cross platform embedding of resources

So you have written your program and it has lots of features. It has help, it has lots of icons, it has po catalogs for all those translations. But all these features add potentially lots of files to your program and you would really like to go back to the simple time when there was just one file - ...