Embed Glade files in executable

• Gtk#

  Just bundle glade files as resources (using the -resource: option in the compiler) and change constructor call or use the Glade.XML.FromAssembly () method to create Glade.XML ui.
  See also A google search application using Gtk#

• Gtk+(Embedding Binary Blobs With GCC)
  
  1. Excerpt From Embedding Binary Blobs With GCC
     

     $ echo Hello, World > foo.txt
     $ ld -r -b binary -o foo.o foo.txt
     $ objdump -x foo.o

     
     test.c

     #include <stdio.h>
     extern char _binary_foo_txt_start[];
     
     int main (void) {
     puts (_binary_foo_txt_start);
     return 0;
     }

     
     
     

     
     $ gcc -o test test.c foo.o
     $ ./test
     Hello, World!
     

     
     Change the string itself in the .data section, which is read/write, to be read-only data in the .rodata section so that it isn't copied for every instance of the application.
     

     $ objcopy --rename-section .data=.rodata,alloc,load,readonly,data,contents foo.o foo.o
     $ objdump  -h foo.o
     

     
     
  2. You might find GNU as's .incbin directive more useful for this purpose - you can control the symbol name, section, and add a NUL terminator. You do have to write little wrapper .s files though. For example
     

     $ echo hello world > demo.txt
     $ cat > demo.s
     .section ".rodata"
     .globl demo
     .type demo, @object
     demo:
     .incbin "demo.txt"
     .byte 0
     .size demo, .-demo
     ^D
     $ as demo.s -o demo.o
     $ nm demo.o
     00000000 R demo
     $ strings demo.o
     hello world

     
     
  
  
• wxWidget(xml-based resource system overview)

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Add icons to ELF files
How do I add an icon to a mingw-gcc compiled executable?

1. create a .rc file that looks id ICON "path/to/my.ico"
2. windres my.rc -O coff -o my.res
3. g++ -o my_app obj1.o obj2.o my.res