Include exe file as a resource (solved)

[alvaro533]

Good afternoon,

I have created a small program in fwh64, for example, "myapp.exe." The program "myapp.exe" calls a utility, "pdftopng.exe," which is open-source and occupies 1MB, in the background. I would like to distribute my program as a single file, "myapp.exe." Is it possible to include "pdftopng.exe" within "myapp.exe" as a resource or library, or something similar? Then, when the client copies "myapp.exe" to their computer and runs it, it would check if "pdftopng.exe" is in the program's folder, and if it's not, extract it to be used.

Thank you and regards,

Alvaro

[alvaro533]

In the rc file:

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FILE1 RCDATA "..\\..\\GeoTif\\utils\\pdftopng.exe"

in fwh

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RCDATATOFILE( GetResources(), "FILE1", "pdftopng.exe" )

Regards

Alvaro

[Antonio Linares]

Very good!

[cnavarro]

https://bielsys.blogspot.com/2009/04/