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Packaging Rogue Wave Views Applications
This section explains how to use ilv2data, a tool provided with Rogue Wave® Views to safely package application data files together with your Rogue Wave Views application in the same executable.
What is ilv2data?
The ilv2data executable file allows you to put all the application resources, such as .ilv and .dbm files and bitmaps (.gif, .bmp, .pbm, and so on), in a file generated by ilv2data that you will then add to an application project (on PCs) or compile and link with your Rogue Wave Views application (on UNIX).
This file is a data resource file on Microsoft Windows (.rc) that can be compiled with the Microsoft Resource Compler (RC.EXE). On UNIX platforms, this file is a regular C++ source file that contains only the definition of static data. This file can be compiled with your regular C++ compiler. We call this file a resource file in the rest of this section.
A resource file stores a set of data blocks that can be retrieved at run time using the name with which they were associated when building the resource file.
In This Section
*Launching ilv2data
*The ilv2data Panel
*Launching ilv2data with a Batch Command
*Adding a Resource File to a UNIX Library
*Adding a Resource File to a Windows DLL

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