Program that creates EXE's

How good are you with your programming language of choice? What you''re asking could be a very difficult thing. You have a possibilities.

1. Write a full-blown compiler, which is extremely difficult for someone with anything less than veteran-level skills (but bloody fun and educational!)
   
   
2. Have an interpreter .exe that would take the script filename as a parameter and execute it.
   
   
3. As above, but integrate the script directly in the executable (as a resource) and parse it on the fly. Probably the best solution.
   

Basically you want to write a compiler, which will involve converting your script statements into machine code, and then recording the whole thing in .exe format.

A quick google search turned up this, which might be a helpful starting place.

EDIT ^^^^ yes, option 3 sounds like the best alternative to writing a full blown compiler.

[edited by - Sandman on April 1, 2004 9:19:48 AM]

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Original post by RuneLancer
How good are you with your programming language of choice? What you're asking could be a very difficult thing. You have a possibilities.

1. Write a full-blown compiler, which is extremely difficult for someone with anything less than veteran-level skills (but bloody fun and educational!)
   
   
2. Have an interpreter .exe that would take the script filename as a parameter and execute it.
   
   
3. As above, but integrate the script directly in the executable (as a resource) and parse it on the fly. Probably the best solution.
   

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as time is very scarce i would suggest using the 3rd option, include the wm in each .exe and add the script as a resource.writing a friggin compiler can take a while...



reality is only an option

[edited by - dathui on April 1, 2004 9:19:40 AM]

Well, if you''re OK sticking with windows, then create an executable that loads the script to process from a binary resource. Your ''script compiler'' is a simple task involving the following:

a) parsing the script and making sure there''s no errors (will speed up the run-time as it can assume the script is OK)
b) convert the script into a byte code format (can be as simple as tokenising the script or as complex as creating your own machine code and virtual machine to run it like Java)
c) Insert byte code into resource of executable.

Modifying resources is much simpler than trying to create executables - there''s no relocation tables, entry points, external library references and loads of other stuff to worry about. You can even store the outputted executable as a binary resource of the compiler.

Skizz

Not sure but I think boost:mpl can be used to make some things easy!

C# is your friend here. Read this. Writing a C# program to compile arbitrary C# code is rediculously trivial.