[ale] Resources in executables

[Dunlap, Randy]

Hi,

I'm no expert on this.  It sounds like you are trying
to port a commercial Win app. to Linux and want to do
it well.  Maybe someone else who has done what you are
trying to do will give you some good advice.

My advice is to check out the File Hierarchy Standard
(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) and the in-development
Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ and
http://www.linuxbase.org/cu/ ).

There is also a LSB-FHS test suite
(http://www.opengroup.org/testing/lsb-fhs/)
and some talks about LSB at
http://www.linuxbase.org/talks/ .

I don't know how far they have actually gotten with it,
but the plan is to answer some of your types of
questions as far as directory structures and file
locations.

~Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kalin Nakov [mailto:knakov at nemetschek.bg]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 7:30 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Resources in executables
> 
> Hi. I have another Win32-to-UNIX porting question. Are there 
> any standard
> way (maybe some libraries that can help?) to include resources (like
> bitmaps, music, binary data) in executables, or I should write them by
> myself? Such a thing can be very useful when writing a self-extracting
> executable.
> 
> And yet another simple thing to ask:
> What is the directory that usually holds
> 1. Applications (the equivalent of Program Files in Win32)
> 2. Application configuration files (the equivalent of where 
> System Registry
> or INI files are placed)
> 3. Application working (documents) directory (the equivalent of My
> Documents of Win32)