Question

Am working in VC++ 2008 (express) and I would like to write something in C that creates an “empty” exe that I can later call LoadLibrary on and use BeginUpdateResource, UpdateResource, EndUpdateResource to modify the contents.

Just writing a 0-byte file doesn’t allow me to open it with LoadLibrary because it isn’t a resource.

Answer 1

You can compile an empty .exe file with, for example,

int main() { return 0; }

and use it as a template. (Or an empty .dll, whatever)