problem with static building

[mismael85]

hi,
i built a simple GUI that uses another console application.and i embeded this console application in my GUI exe file using resources.and i built the program using shared linking and the program worked fine.but when i built my program using static linking , the program runs well but when it tries to run the console app, it failes.
what is the problem?

[ChristianEhrlicher]

Read your post and then think about how we should help you with this few informations.

[mismael85]

i used this xml code to add the console app into my resource file

<file>Resources/upx.exe</file>

<file>Resources/upx.exe</file>

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and i used this code to access the program

UPX = new QProcess(this);
UPX->start("./Resources/upx.exe", QStringList(QDir::toNativeSeparators(lineEdit->text())));

UPX = new QProcess(this);
UPX->start("./Resources/upx.exe", QStringList(QDir::toNativeSeparators(lineEdit->text())));

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note that this code works fine when it is built shared.
it only does not work when it built static.
i mean by work that my program works but when i execute the last code it do nothing. it means the program doesn not see the console app.
i hope that is enough.

[jpn]

First of all, you can't execute an executable which has been embedded as a resource. You would have to extract it first. Secondly, start("./Resources/upx.exe") does not even run it from resources but from a sub-directory called similarly.

[mismael85]

you are right.
i tried the shared version a way from the UPX.exe file and it did not work.
so how can i extracte it?

[jpn]

so how can i extracte it?

I'd simply try with QFile::copy() from resources to disk. This way the OS has chances to actually execute it.

[mismael85]

i used this code

QFile::copy("./resources/upx.exe", "c:\\")

QFile::copy("./resources/upx.exe", "c:\\")

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but nothing copied in the c: directory.

[jpn]

I thought it was "./Resources/upx.exe" not "./resources/upx.exe" and the second parameter takes the new name even if it remains the same, not just the target path.

if (QFile::copy(":/Resources/upx.exe", "c:/upx.exe"))
{
    ...
}

if (QFile::copy(":/Resources/upx.exe", "c:/upx.exe"))
{
    ...
}

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[ChristianEhrlicher]

and still "./resources/upx.exe" isn't a resource path...

[jpn]

and still "./resources/upx.exe" isn't a resource path...

Oops, my bad. Thanks for pointing it out.

[mismael85]

what is the difference between using

./Resources/upx.exe

./Resources/upx.exe

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and using

:/Resources/upx.exe

:/Resources/upx.exe

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[jpn]

The Qt Resource System - Using Resources in the Application