Packing up ressources

Iyad · Post by **Iyad** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:00 pm

Hi everyone,
I tried to search on the forum but I didnt find a good solution (using code::blocks) about how to integrate my media files in my exe and load them using irrlicht.
Does anyone have a working code for this?
Thanks for your suggestions.

Radikalizm · Post by **Radikalizm** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:10 pm

Instead of bloating your executable file you should maybe use an external file containing your assets (using a file archive supported by irrlicht, or by designing your own format)

Unless you have a very minimalistic game I wouldn't integrate any assets in an executable

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:12 pm

For other purposes we have the binary to header converter somewhere in the Irrlicht repository. bitplane added it some month ago. Probably under tools/

Iyad · Post by **Iyad** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:35 pm

Unless you have a very minimalistic game I wouldn't integrate any assets in an executable

Irrlicht is not only for games you know, I need my project in only 1 exe, ready to be distributed.

For other purposes we have the binary to header converter somewhere in the Irrlicht repository. bitplane added it some month ago. Probably under tools/

Thx hybrid, i may use this, and if I have some questions ill post them there.

Thanks for your answers.

Radikalizm · Post by **Radikalizm** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:38 pm

Iyad wrote:
Unless you have a very minimalistic game I wouldn't integrate any assets in an executable
Irrlicht is not only for games you know, I need my project in only 1 exe, ready to be distributed.

I am fully aware of that, since I use irrlicht mostly for prototyping these days
I'm just of the opinion that packing everything in a monolithic file is rarely a good approach

Iyad · Post by **Iyad** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 8:29 pm

I tried the file to header converter, and its seems ok. I got my archive file in a header, but I have a problem when I try to load it :

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    IReadFile *f = createEmbeddedFile(Device->getFileSystem(), "test.zip");
    Device->getFileSystem()->addFileArchive(f);

Errors (in irrstring.h) :

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..\include\irrlicht/irrString.h:282: error: could not convert '*(p ++)' to 'bool'
..\include\irrlicht/irrString.h:297: error: invalid cast from type 'const irr::io::IReadFile' to type 'char'

I really dont know why im getting this error, i compiled about 20 times irrlicht in a static lib, and I even added cheshirekow patch (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/ ... =ireadfile).
Does anyone know how to solve this and why it is appearing?
Thanks for your patience

Iyad · Post by **Iyad** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:32 pm

Its ok, I fixed this up... I recompiled irrlicht and added cheshirekow code in filesystem, the problem was that I was calling

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Device->getFileSystem()->addFileArchive(f);

Instead of

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Device->getFileSystem()->addFileArchive(f, true, true, true, "");

It was an overloaded function and without arguments it was calling the bad one...

Thanks for the help