Making something like compiler

[stormbreaker]

Hello everybody. Yesterday I decided to work on my own CD/DVD AutoPlay program (written in C++). Now, I want to 'combine' the configuration file with the main program (just like the Aut2Exe Compiler combines the .bin file and .au3 script, there are other examples like 7-zip's SFX modules etc.). I have a little bit knowledge that the combination is done by something like:

copy /b mybin.bin+myscript.au3 myexe.exe

Could anyone please provide some guidelines, tips, references etc. to get me started in this direction?

Regards,

MKISH

[BrewManNH]

Not sure how it's done, but all that command will do is corrupt the file by concatenating the 2 together into the myexe.exe file.

[stormbreaker]

BrewManNH, this command indeed works for 7-Zip's SFX Modules. I created a SFX using this command with .sfx file. Try it.

[twitchyliquid64]

that will not corrupt the exe- that's a technique known as EOF (end of file) data.

1. get a file handle to your exe.

2. write to the end a header string.

3. write your data.

to read it:

1. the executable opens a READ ONLY handle to itself.

2.scans ahead till it finds header string.

3. reads in data

4. ?????

5. PROFIT!!!!!!!

[stormbreaker]

Thnx bro, I'll try it once I get home.

[Richard Robertson]

That's not a compiler by any stretch. That's an embedded interpreter.

[stormbreaker]

These technical terms get over my head sometimes... anyways, a hundred thnx to Richard (for the correction) and twitchyliquid64 (for this cool trick).

Proves the concept that I still have a lot to learn...

Best Regards,

MKISH