[Haskell-cafe] Best practice for embedding files in a GHC-compiled tool?

[Aaron Tomb]

On Feb 9, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote:

> Dave Bayer wrote:
>> What is the best way to embed an arbitrary file in a Haskell program?
>
> I don't know the best way. I'd probably use FFI.

<snip>

> The idea is then to use some existing tool that embeds binary
> data in C programs.

Since you're specifically interested in OS X, I'd follow this advice,  
and then look at /usr/include/mach-o/getsect.h. This header declares a  
function

extern char *getsectdata(
     const char *segname,
     const char *sectname,
     unsigned long *size);

which seems like it'll give you all of the data in one of the sections  
of the executable file for the currently running program. I haven't  
used it, though, so I'm not positive about how it works.

I think it's then fairly straightforward to tell the linker to just  
include an arbitrary file into a section with a name of your choice.

Aaron