> some help on the forum, I could implement an alternative way of storing > files in an executable file (basically it just appends them with a footer).
This is actually a very common method that is used by installers and other self-extracting programs frequently (especially under Linux). UPX calls them "overlays", although i'm not sure this is a common term. In any case, this isn't a method that should be used by a compiler or other generic tool, because a lot of overlay loading implementations read the header file of the executable to figure out where the extra data are located and if compilers place extra data there, there will be conflicts. -- Kostas Michalopoulos <[email protected]> -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
