Data-only static libraries with GCC
- by regularfry
How can I make static libraries with only binary data, that is without any object code, and make that data available to a C program? Here's the build process and simplified code I'm trying to make work:
./datafile:
abcdefghij
Makefile:
libdatafile.a:
ar [magic] datafile
main: libdatafile.a
gcc main.c libdatafile.a -o main
main.c:
#define TEXTPTR [more magic]
int main(){
char mystring[11];
memset(mystring, '\0', 11);
memcpy(TEXTPTR, mystring, 10);
puts(mystring);
puts(mystring);
return 0;
}
The output I'm expecting from running main is, of course:
abcdefghijabcdefghij
My question is: what should [magic] and [more magic] be?
