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

[Jay Carlson <nop@...>]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> 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.

Right.  I suppose you could package up mingw GNU ld into a 
point-and-click tool.  But the context for this thread was "what can we 
do for ELF?"

Jay