My C application relies on some files to copy over. Will the files be contained in the executable and not as stand-alone files? Would it have to be linked statically? I am using Eclipse CDT if it matters.
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My C application relies on some files to copy over. Will the files be contained in the executable and not as stand-alone files? Would it have to be linked statically? I am using Eclipse CDT if it matters.
There are several ways you can link file data into an executable. A platform like Windows allows you to link data into an executable as a “resource” and provides APIs to access those resources (this is how icons and other objects are bound into a Windows executable). This is probably the best way to do it if your platform supports it – support for it is built right into the IDEs.
At a lower level, you might be able to use the linker to directly link a file into an executable as an addressable object:
And finally, if you’re dealing with a more primitive system like some embedded platforms, you can run your file through something that converts it into source for C array of bytes: