natnat-mc / filesymbol

Small tool to embed files and directory hierarchies into C sources, to be compiled and available as symbols for any language that can read them

filesymbol

Small tool to embed files and directory hierarchies into C sources, to be compiled and available as symbols for any language that can read them

Usage

filesymbol -o OUTFILE [-i HEADERFILE] [-r RAWFILE NAME]... [-R RAWFILE NAME]... [-f FILE NAME]... FILES...
	-o --out    OUTFILE      - set output file (.c)
	-i --header HEADERFILE   - set output header file (.h)
	-r --rawlen RAWFILE NAME - add raw file as name, with length
	-R --raw    RAWFILE NAME - add raw file as name, without length
	-f --file   FILE NAME    - add file hierarchy to output
	FILES                    - add file hierarchy to output, named by path

Examples

Package the filesymbol, and bin directories, along with the rockspec:

filesymbol -o filesymbol.c -i filesymbol.h bin filesymbol *.rockspec

Package the readme as the readme symbol, and compile it to the readme.o object file, without anything else:

filesymbol -o readme.c -R README.md readme
gcc -c readme.c -o readme.o

Installing

TODO

filesymbol's Issues

Don't generate helpers unless we need them

Don't generate any helpers unless we need them.
That is, if we only request raw files, we don't need the whole header, only stddef.h, and especially not the static filesymbol_noinit.