How to add and throw a binary inside a project?

[carpajr]

Hello!

I'm not sure that is possible, but imagine that the main application calls a binary by QProcess sometimes.
In my project, I have a very small binary that must be run each 1 minute more or less. I would like to know if it is possibly embedded the binary inside the project using a qrc file to map that file and throw it using qrc address inside C++ code.

Is it possible? A crazy thing?

Thanks!

[Pablo J. Rogina]

@carpajr said in How to add and throw a binary inside a project?:

if it is possibly embedded the binary inside the project using a qrc file

Yes

throw it using qrc address inside C++ code.

No

You can embed your binary within your Qt application executable, then you save that binary into a temporary file and run that temporary file with QProcess on the desired interval with QTimer...

[fcarney]

@Pablo-J.-Rogina said in How to add and throw a binary inside a project?:

you save that binary into a temporary file and run that temporary file

Would that trigger an antivirus/malware program?

[JonB]

@fcarney Yes

[carpajr]

@fcarney said in How to add and throw a binary inside a project?:

Would that trigger an antivirus/malware program?

Good point.

What is it recommendable in cases like that?

[SGaist]

Hi,

Install both executables in a know folder structure and call the second from the first one as you are already doing.