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From: Clinton Jeffery <jeffery@segfault.cs.utsa.edu>
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Subject: Re: Stand-alone executables
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> Under Windows/DOS, does there exist any method of bundling the "iconx"
> interpreter with compiled icon code to create a true "stand-alone"
> executable?
My thanks to everybody who participated in last week's discussion of the
need to produce standalone .exe files for Icon programs.
Ray Pereda even sent me a simple C program that proves-by-example that
bundling iconx with compiled icode need not be a difficult, low-level task.
It turns out his brute force technique works correctly both for NT console
and Windows applications, and works on NT, Windows 95, and Windows 3.1, so
we are in luck!
I have updated the main Windows Icon distribution at
ftp://ringer.cs.utsa.edu/pub/icon/nt/binaries/
to generate .exe files. Bundling iconx adds ~200K to console applications,
and ~350K to graphics applications, but I think the added convenience more
than makes up for the size cost, so I've made .exe the default extension.
If you want the smaller icode files, you can specify a .bat or .cmd extension
with icont's -o option and things behave as they did before.
I hope you enjoy this new feature, and I will continue to look forward to
comments and suggestions you have for Windows Icon. I crave feedback!
Clint Jeffery, jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
Division of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Research http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/plss.html