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Re: UNIX resource compiler???
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: UNIX resource compiler???
- From: Alfred Perlstein <bright at hotjobs dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:21:43 -0500 (EST)
- cc: kauer at pheno dot physics dot wisc dot edu, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > Do you know of somebody who has written something like a
> > resource compiler for Unix executables (NOT Win32 or Mac)?
>
> Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) has a resource compiler for Windows
> resources, which works on Unix. This is probably not what you want,
> though.
>
> If you just want to link the text files into the executable, why not
> just convert them into character array and link them in?
>
> If you want to modify the executable after it has been linked, you
> need to deal with specific executable format. For ELF, there is an
> established interface (libelf) for reading and writing sections.
>
> Please note that it is typically non-trivial to get a file handle for
> the executable that is just being executed, at least in a way that
> works 100%. For example, the file being executed might already be
> unlinked from the file system.
most systems will allows this via /proc your milage may vary.
-Alfred
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>