Thread: Store a file into an exe after compiled?

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    Store a file into an exe after compiled?

    Is it possible to create an char array and add some markers around the char array so that "file writer" program knows where to start writing and the storage program knows where start outputting and where to end the output.

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    I should write a script that generate an char array in C source code then compile it?

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    What are you trying to do?
    Writing data back into an exe is a somewhat old idea (and somewhat suspicious).
    If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
    If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Salem View Post
    What are you trying to do?
    Writing data back into an exe is a somewhat old idea (and somewhat suspicious).
    I'm not doing something suspicious nor malicious...
    Just trying to pack the files into an exe so that it could act like utorrent.
    Where the exe act as a very light weight installer (eject the correct dll for 32/64bit system respectively), updater, launcher and uninstaller as the same time.

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    Like a self-extracting archive?
    If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
    If at first you don't succeed, try writing your phone number on the exam paper.

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    yup... but I'll add additional detections.

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