Re: FW: srlua extension to run with glued zip file

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Jay Carlson wrote:
> I'm confused.  Why don't you just use the linker to put in the data that 
> you want?  The most portable way to do this is just stuff everything 
> into a const char[] and compile it.  If you want to skip the 
> octets->.c->.o overhead I suppose you could use objcopy to go directly 
> from octets->.o, or use a linker script for more control.
>
> If the goal is to avoid having the whole development environment 
> including headers on the machine performing the append, then ship a 
> partially linked version of the lua executable with a weak symbol that 
> will be supplied by the .o containing the octets.  The target machine 
> then just needs objcopy and a linker.
>
> If you can't depend on having a linker on the target machine, yeah, 
> you're going to have to play around with libelf like lhf says.  But just 
> about everybody has a linker.

Not on Windows.

A typical use I saw with AutoIt, an tool to automate GUI tasks on 
Windows, is to have an exe (the runtime) and a tool to glue the user's 
code to the exe to make self-running scripts.

The target is end users, knowing (near to) nothing to programming (the 
syntax is very primitive, close to .bat/.cmd), which are unlikely to 
have any programming tool like a linker.

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