[SDL] Appending resources to .exe

Stefan `Sec` Zehl stefan.zehl at sdl.sec.42.org
Wed Apr 4 14:46:41 PDT 2007


Hi,

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:27 +0000, Edward Byard wrote:
> I'm using VC++ Express 2005 - does anyone know how to append resources
> to the .exe so I can distribute my game as a standalone executable?

There are many ways to append resources. But for distributing a standalone
executable you would need to statically link the SDL.dll. And as far as I
know now, it would be theoretically possible to do that, but nobody ever
managed to do it.

My current plan is to have a small starter application, which unpacks
everything to a temporary directory, and starts my SDL app from there.

CU,
    Sec
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