Re: Fw: [Tinycc-devel] windows resources LinkRes2Exe.exe by Mike Henning

[bj]

i don't put the whole dictionary in one exe file.
i have mysql, php and apache in ServCD  
(http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/servcd) for that.
it is not an english dictionary, it is a Filipino dictionary.  :|
i plan to make it to have most tagalog words, and some english words (if  
those words are popular proper nouns used in the Philippines or they can't  
be really translated to tagalog). much like webster dictionary translated  
to tagalog.  8-)
the executable is supposedly to contain a wav file of 1 word to 3  
paragraphs of speech sound not 5000 words. more like 1 to 200 words. and  
it will contain the Filipino text used to generate the speech sound and a  
play button to play the speech sound. i might even include there the  
images of the phonemes used. hmmm.
so if your input text in the webpage is a word then the executable that  
can be generated is small and if your input text in the webpage is 3  
paragraphs then the executable generated is large.
i could do what you said like store all the words in a zip file and load  
them using a C program but then i have to recode all my php files into C  
code which would take some time and I am really not good at C. and i can't  
do that considering this is 7 months late. :'(

i am going to cram all of it in a cd with reatogo and sherpya drivers and  
i'll have some free space of 40 megabytes for the database of words.
reatogo+sherpya drivers=485mb, thesis with docs=175mb, free space for  
words in the database=40 mb

:)
i've thought about that batch file restarting the exe, maybe i'll use that  
in the future, because mike's advice about the manifest file worked  
already. that batch file can be an executable also that launches the exe,  
hmmm, :|
oh yeah, i used brcc32.exe from Borland's freecommandlinetools.exe rather  
than rc.exe . and it works fine.

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:13:42 +0800, bertie <address@hidden> wrote:

> Restart itself is not possible: only an extern app could. Like a batch  
> for
> example.
>
> On a side note, storing wave files within the exe for a text-to-speech  
> program
> might show some limits quickly as there are 5000 usual english words.
> With such a weight, loading the exe would be slow and overconsume memory.
> Store them in a zip file instead just my 2 sense.
>
> On Thursday 05 October 2006 22:10, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 October 2006 3:28 pm, Laurens Simonis wrote:
> > >  > and at finally it worked!!! thank you very much!!
> > >  > to all, how does one code a c program that knows its executable  
> > name
> > >  > and can restart itself?
> > >
> > > The executable name can be found in argv[0] I think. Starting an exe  
> > can
> > > be done with system();
> > >
> > > #include <stdio.h>
> > >
> > > int main(int argc, char **argv)
> > > {
> > >    printf(argv[0]);
> > >    return 0;
> > > }
> >
> > That's a little oversimplified.  The path isn't reliably in there, and  
> > the
> > executable might not be in $PATH.  On linux, you can exec /proc/self/exe
> > and expect it to work.  (I don't do Windows.)
> >
> > Also, system() washes stuff through "/bin/sh", which spawns an extra
> > process and it's a child process rather than a restart.  On Linux you  
> > want
> > one of the exec() family of calls (man exec).  Possibly execvp();
> >
> > Rob
>
>
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