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NAME

       elfrc — a resource compiler for ELF systems

SYNOPSIS

       elfrc [-o filename]  [-h filename]  [-v ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the elfrc command.

       This  manual  page  was written for the Debian distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       elfrc is a program which can turn arbitrary files into ELF object files
       which  can  then  be linked into your program directly and accessed via
       simple, user-defined symbol names.

       For instance, it’s possible to embed even huge (16MB+)  files  directly
       into  the  executable and then access the data in constant time without
       making the compiler or linker eat loads of memory.

OPTIONS

       Here’s what the arguments do:

       -o filename
                 Store resulting ELF object in filename. If not given, no  ELF
                 object will be generated.

       -h filename
                 Store  C header file which can be used to access the resource
                 data in filename. If  not  given,  no  header  file  will  be
                 generated.

       -v        Be a little verbose about what’s going on.

       In  any  case,  the  most important argument is resfile - the path to a
       resource file which can be parsed by elfrc.  If  no  resource  file  is
       given, or if "-" (a dash) is given, the resources will be read from the
       standard input.

       A resource file is just a plain  text  file,  each  line  in  the  file
       describing  a resource to be compiled into the ELF output. Each line is
       expected to three fields, separated by tab characters: the type of  the
       resource  (can  be  either  ’binary’  or ’text’), the symbol name (this
       should be a valid C identifier) and the path to the file to be compiled
       in.

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was written by Kumar Appaiah akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in for
       the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission  is  granted
       to  copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later  version  published  by
       the Free Software Foundation.

       On  Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
       can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.