Fatbin

Instead of shipping a ZIP containing resources (images, sounds, etc.) and an executable, fatbin permits to compress everything in an unique executable file.

It's my entry to the GopherGala 2016.

Howto

Example video : https://c.remy.io/oweinxoW

Create an archive

Usage:

-f.dir string
        the directory to fatbinerize
-f.exe string
        the file inside the fatbin archive to execute at startup
-f.out string
        the archive file to create. (default "archive.fbin")

Example:

fatbin -f.dir /path/to/my/program -f.exe main -f.out program.fbin

Current limitation: the executable runned at startup must in the root of the compressed directory.

Start an archive

The archive is an executable which can directly be started.

./program.fbin

Future work

Compress the archive with something else than gzip.
Ship "surrounding" files in the temporary execution context. (e.g. for .conf)

License