lsyncd/bin2carray.lua

--============================================================================
-- bin2carray.lua
--
-- License: GPLv2 (see COPYING) or any later version
--
-- Authors: Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com>
--
-- Transforms a binary file (the compiled lsyncd luacode) in a c array
-- so it can be included into the executable in a portable way.
--
--============================================================================

if #arg < 3
then
	error( 'Usage: '..arg[ 0 ]..' [infile] [varname] [outfile]' )
end

fin, err = io.open( arg[ 1 ], 'rb' )
if fin == nil
then
	error( 'Cannot open "'..arg[ 1 ]..'" for reading: '..err )
end

fout, err = io.open( arg[ 3 ], 'w' )
if fout == nil
then
	error( 'Cannot open "'..arg[ 3 ]..'"for writing: '..err )
end

fout:write( '/* created by '..arg[ 0 ]..' from file '..arg[ 1 ]..' */\n')
fout:write( '#include <stddef.h>\n' )
fout:write( 'const char '..arg[ 2 ]..'_out[] = {\n' )

while true
do
	local block = fin:read( 16 )

	if block == nil then break end

	for i = 1, #block
	do
		local val = string.format( '%x', block:byte( i ) )

		if #val < 2 then val = "0" ..val end

		fout:write( "0x", val, "," )
	end

	fout:write( '\n' )
end

fout:write( '};\n\nsize_t '..arg[ 2 ]..'_size = sizeof('..arg[ 2 ]..'_out);\n' );

fin:close( );
fout:close( );