Easily embed existing filesystem in C/C++ applications

Search for files in current or specified path and creates a C Include file with array of follow struct:

struct stFile {
  const char *name;             // Name of file
  const char *mime;             // Mime Type
  int size;                     // Size
  const unsigned char *data;    // file content
 };

All found files are stored at array const volatile stFile __attribute__ ((section (".rodata"))) fsFiles[]; in out.h. Just include out.h in your application and search for they in fsFiles[i].name. Found it, the content and size are in fsFiles[i].size and fsFiles[i].data.

The number of files found is set in #define FS_FILES X

Usage:

./fs2ch [Input PATH - Optional] [Output filename - Optional]

./fs2ch 

fs2ch searches for files in current directory and creates out.h if run without arguments

Install

Just do make

Dependencies

Boost Filesystem

Test

Folder test-example have test and example how to use fsFiles[]. It will embed files from input folder and recreate it to folder output and run diff. If diff return none the files are equal. To run the test enter in test-example and do make

Uses

I created it for a embedded system with FreeRTOS + Mongoose Web Server.

I'm embedding Angular.js, Fonts, Images and HTML files in the Flash of my ARM Cortex M3 board.