Embedding a DLL or an EXE file in my EXE.......

[Elias Montoya]

I can call external programs using shell o Shellexecute,
but is there a way to embed an EXE (RAR.exe for example, wich
is the one o most use) in my Exe?

or is at least a way to extract some of the functions?

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[Wayne Diamond]

The easiest way is just whack it on the end of your exe. Assume your exe is 10000 bytes in size, the code might be something like this:

DIM sFile AS STRING
OPEN MyExename FOR BINARY ACCESS READ LOCK SHARED AS #1
 GET$ #1, LOF(1) - 10000, sFile
CLOSE #1
OPEN "c:\dumped.exe" FOR BINARY ACCESS WRITE LOCK SHARED AS #1
 PUT #1, 1, sFile
CLOSE #1
SHELL "c:\dumped.exe"

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[Elias Montoya]

can i still run it this way? if so, how?

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[Frederic Faure]

I don't know if you can add an EXE to an EX, but PEBundle among others can add DLL's to an EXE:
http://www.collakesoftware.com

Fred.

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[Wayne Diamond]

Elias, yes - the SHELL line in the code above executes the file after it has been extracted



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[Steve Hutchesson]

If you want to actually embeda binary file within an EXE file,
use a DB sequence to store the data.

  label:
    ! db 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
    etc ....

You will need a utility to do the conversion and they are easy
enough to write, just load the file into memory and write the
value for each byte in the above DB format.

Regards,

[email protected]

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[George Bleck]

Real simple...

(1) Attach it as a raw data resource
(2) Extract the resoruce and save it to disk when necessary
(3) SHELL to where you saved it to run it
(4) Clean-up (delete) when done running it when your application ends

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[William Burns]

awhile back i posted some source code to embed and extract files like dll, exe, etc.

see:
http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=23527



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