embed s file in exe

[Robert]

Dear all,

I want to embed a motorola s file in my exe file using Visual
C++.net,
and then I can use the data in the Motorola file. How should I
do?
I am urgently need your help.
Thanks a lot.

[Howard]

"Robert" <wa*********@gmail.comwrote in message
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Dear all,

I want to embed a motorola s file in my exe file using Visual
C++.net,
and then I can use the data in the Motorola file. How should I
do?
I am urgently need your help.
Thanks a lot.

Why do you need to "embed" a file in an executable? Why not just write your
executable so that it opens and reads the file?

Anyway, if you really need it to be part of the executable for some reason,
you might be able to create a resource out of it which you can import into
your project and which will then compile into the executable. But resources
are specific to your operating system (Windows, in this case), and importing
them into a VC++ project is specific to VC++. You should ask in a VC++ or
other microsoft newsgroup.

(By the way, I have no idea if your "s" file, whatever that is, is
proprietary data, but if it is, you'd better check on whether it's ok to
distribute it before distributing your executable.)

-Howard

[Julián Albo]

Howard wrote:

Why do you need to "embed" a file in an executable? Why not just write
your executable so that it opens and reads the file?
Anyway, if you really need it to be part of the executable for some
reason, you might be able to create a resource out of it which you can
import into your project and which will then compile into the executable.
But resources are specific to your operating system (Windows, in this

A portable way is to write a program that reads the executable in binary
mode and generates some like:

const char filecontent []=
{
byte1, byte2 ...
};

Add a header file with the extern declaration for filecontente if needed,
add other variable with the file lenght if you need it, compile and link
with the main program, and voila.

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Salu2