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I am trying to understand how various ebook applications compile their output into a self-contained executable file with no dependencies when you run the exe.
How can it be done? Do they use real embedded compiler?
The ebook application probably creates an application with an integrated web browser. The application will be pre-compiled and the only thing missing will be the html content. This will be added as a resource. A full compiler isn’t necessary. All is needed is to add the resources to an existing executable.
See this article on how html pages can be added to a resource dll. Resource hacker is a utility that can extract/replace resources from any executable. No compiler is needed to do this.