[SDL] Embed SDL.dll in the .exe

Andre de Leiradella leiradella at bigfoot.com
Tue Oct 9 20:05:27 PDT 2007


> oops - i didnt noticed that it is not totally free. i didnt know about 
> that -ea "premium" option.
>
> so well - i hope you manage to do your own tool, and i hope you make it 
> opensource and free so we all can use it in case we need such a scenario.
>   
It's not that difficult at a first glance. And since I'll write it 
because I need it, I'll have the chance to test it with a real application.

Yes, I will release the tool for free, but I'm not sure about open 
source. And keep in mind that it'll be very simple, no extended features 
as ZIP 2 Secure EXE, and that it will take a while before I have 
something to release. After I have it working then I can add features 
based on requests though...
> but i ask myself how reliable is it to detect a (temporary) writable 
> directory on the different windows platforms? what will vista say to 
> such a behaviour?
>   
Now that's a good question. I'll be using fnkdat to get a temporary 
directory to where I can decompress the application, and Vista is not 
yet listed as a supported platform. My guess is that it will work, since 
applications must have some place where they can write config files and 
stuff even on Vista. But I may be wrong.

I'll test the tool on Vista before releasing it.

Cheers,

Andre


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