Adding libraries to an executable

[Anton Alexeev]

On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 10:13:39 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 09:05:39 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 September 2013 at 21:31:59 UTC, Anton Alexeev 
>> wrote:
>>> I've written a program which uses curl library. So on a PC 
>>> without curl the program will not work until you install the 
>>> library. Is there a way to put the curl library in the 
>>> executable?
>>
>> You just gave me an idea to compile in shared libraries and 
>> then to extract them on run.
>> I'll let you know when I got some code.
>> (Btw this is not a good idea but definitely will work for 
>> license reasons, although this could be a rather gray zone. 
>> Should be confirmed.).
>
> So I modified my Bin2D which allows compiling in resources[1].
> Now it can produce an output file that when compiled in gives 
> two new functions.
> These functions essentially extract the files for you.
> One of those is for temporary directory[2].
>
> Little bit off topic but it can be utilised for packaging up 
> shared libraries into your executable and then extracting on 
> run.
>
> E.g.
> $ dub build
> $ cd bin
> $ ./Bin2D outputFile.d=outputModule lib1.so lib2.dll
> Just an example usage. Note not on dub repository.
>
> Just another option for ya.
>
> [1] https://github.com/rikkimax/Bin2D/blob/master/source/Bin2D.d
> [2] string[string] outputBin2D2FS()

Thank you for taking time and writing this tool but I don't 
really understand how to use it. Can you please explain it little 
bit more? So I have my main.d file with source code and I compile 
it with this command: "dmd -L-lphobos2 -L-lcurl main.d". How will 
I get all the libraries into one executable with Bin2D?