Re: Resources in a binary file

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Luciano de Souza wrote:
> In C or Pascal, it's possible to create resources files. WaAV, GIFs, 
> HTMLs or any type of file can be packed in a single binary filed, in 
> Windows, a DLL file. Using directly the Lua features, is it possible 
> also to create this type of file? 

Normally you need the resource compiler. You can't do it in Lua 
unless you write your own resource compiler, and you'd need a 
linking step as well, so you may also need to write that. If you 
just need .rc -> .dll, it's of course possible to write a 
simplified version, or a small one with cut-down features. But I 
haven't heard of any scripting language implementing their own 
resource compiler.

> In positive answer, what is the 
> library responsible to write and read it?

Different compilers have different steps. MinGW/gcc for example, 
compiles .rc to .o files, but you wouldn't be able to mix that 
with Visual C++. So a lot will have to do with your intended 
application...

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia