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6917 :: Emdedding text in binary - post-compilation

• ElAfalw (orginal) [2020-10-13T10:37:13+02:00] view original

  I have a rather weird question but I don't really know how to put it or where to start looking from.

  My question is not about "embedding" a text file (we already have at compile time) - that is too obvious.

  My question is if (and how) I could let's say "package" an existing (Nim created) binary with a text file and generate a new... working binary with access to that file.

  I'm a Mac user. I know that could work with an .app package and all that. But that's still not what I want. I want to be able to "tweak" an existing binary, add some (accessible - how?) additional text data to it, and the binary remaining absolutely functional.

  Is that even possible?

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• Stefan_Salewski (orginal) [2020-10-13T10:59:54+02:00] view original

  Google would point you to pages like

  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1945075/how-do-i-create-binary-patches

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• cumulonimbus (orginal) [2020-10-13T13:49:17+02:00] view original

  Especially for the Mac, apple is moving in the direction of requiring a signature on executables; Be prepared to have to somehow sign/authenticate/register-with-apple every modified executable you provide to a 3rd-party.

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