Adding files into the exe and extracting them

Chirantha · Post by **Chirantha** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:56 am

How do I add some zip files, dll's, images to the exe file and extract them when the program starts?

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:03 am

; Include the file(s) in exe:
DataSection
  beginzip: IncludeBinary "somefile.zip" endzip:
EndDataSection

; Write them to disk at runtime:
If CreateFile(0, "somefile.zip")
  If WriteData(0, ?beginzip, ?endzip-?beginzip)
    ; success
  Else
    ; error message
  EndIf
  CloseFile(0)
Else
  ; error message
EndIf

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:16 am

Netmaestro... that is fascinating... is there a way to do this if the zip has a password?

Poshu · Post by **Poshu** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:21 am

Hummm... This is pretty basic stuff using datasection. It has nothing to do with zip, so you can add any type of binarie, including password protected zip...

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:16 am

The trouble with including loads of things inside an exe (as I understand it) is that the entire thing has to be loaded into memory first, which includes everything inside the exe and that could impact on any machine not having enough RAM.

Might be more efficient and useful to include a resource bin that doesn't get loaded into memory. One such useful thing that comes to mind is DoubleDutch's DBIN.

You might want to check out

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... n&start=45

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:14 pm

I click on the link in the purearea.net website and it simply displays the info about PBOSL No download!

Ahhh I see... you have to download the entire PBOSL... No one exactly mentioned that!

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:24 pm

http://pbosl.purearea.net/pbosl_src.zip
http://pbosl.purearea.net/pbosl_win.zip
http://pbosl.purearea.net/pbosl_lin.tar.gz
http://pbosl.purearea.net/pbosl_mac.zip
http://pbosl.purearea.net/pbosl_examples.zip

ar-s · Post by **ar-s** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:56 pm

Rook Zimbabwe wrote:Netmaestro... that is fascinating... is there a way to do this if the zip has a password?

Same way with using gnozal PureZip Lib to unzip !

Kaeru Gaman · Post by **Kaeru Gaman** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:06 am

Fangbeast wrote:Might be more efficient and useful to include a resource bin that doesn't get loaded into memory. One such useful thing that comes to mind is DoubleDutch's DBIN.

wasn't there an integrated ressources manager since 4.0 or so?
I'm not sure how it works, didn't use it yet...

PB · Post by PB » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:59 am

> The trouble with including loads of things inside an exe (as I understand
> it) is that the entire thing has to be loaded into memory first, which
> includes everything inside the exe and that could impact on any machine
> not having enough RAM.

I've heard that too, but nothing beats a self-contained single executable.