I'd also suggest option 3. And make sure you extract the file to a folder that the user has permission to access.
Monday, October 25, 2010, 1:17:13 AM, you wrote: KN> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:57:15 +0800, Mohd Radzi Ibrahim KN> <mra...@pc.jaring.my> wrote: >> Hi, >> I am planning to deploy my sqlite database together >> with the exe file. Is there a way to open the sqlite >> database with a file handle and starting offset of >> the file, as read-only? >> >> Thank you for any suggestion. KN> Not out of the box. KN> I can think of three solutions: KN> 1- Difficult: change the sqlite3 library in such a way so it KN> uses the whole executable as the "first page" of the KN> database KN> 2- Easier: Store the output of the .dump command of the KN> sqlite3 shell in a 'resource' in the executable and on KN> execution of your program read the resource and load it in KN> an in-memory database (filename ":memory:" ) by calling KN> sqlite3_exec() on each of its statements. KN> 3- Easier: Store the database file as-is in a resource in KN> the executable and on execution of your program write it to KN> disk and open it in the normal way. KN> HTH -- Best regards, Neville Franks, http://www.surfulater.com http://blog.surfulater.com _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
