I think if digital signing is required, using Windows Resources would be the better way. Now that I think about it, with FPC 2.4 that should even be possible on Linux (and other platforms). Many roads lead to rome :D
Am Dienstag 12 Januar 2010 14:17:21 schrieb Milan Marusinec: > Andreas Schneider wrote: > > Hi, > > > > that works the same as in Windows and can probably be done with every > > executable format. Simply append the data to the end of the file and > > store the offset or length of that data at the end. All you have to do > > then is to let the program open "itself" (ParamStr(0)), seek to the end - > > SizeOf(Integer), read that integer to know the offset of the data, seek > > to that position, and read all you need from there. So essentially your > > file looks like: <original executable><install data><data offset> > > Andreas, > > Will this method work when the exe is digitally > signed afterwards (or before) ? > > (tough, for linux it doesn't matter) > > Milan > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
