Simple test of compressing and storing datafiles inside executable or a loadable binary blob.

Features

• Packs datafiles directly into executable or a binary blob.
• Compression using zlib.
• Allows users to override files (must be explicitly enabled.)
• API to access files in-memory (entire file is loaded into memory.)
• Supports FILE* for reading/writing (data is streamed).
• Load files either using a hardcoded handle from a header or using filename.

Usage

1. Create ando/or edit datafiles
2. datapacker NAME:FILENAME.. to generate c-file.
3. Build your app as usual and include generated c-file.
4. Use unpack or unpack_filename to load the data into memory. unpack uses structure directly. unpack_filename uses a virtual filename to locate the struct.

Install

1. ./configure
2. make
3. make install

Debian/Ubuntu

For apt-based distributions you can generate a .deb for easier installation:

1. ./configure
2. sudo make deb
3. sudo dpkg -i datapack_*.deb

Using with automake

See Makefile.am for real example.

files.c: datapacker Makefile
	$(AM_V_GEN)./datapacker -f ${top_srcdir}/datafiles -s ${top_srcdir} -d $(DEPDIR)/files.data -o files.c -e files.h

-include ./$(DEPDIR)/files.data

where datafiles is a list of files to pack.