Feels like I've read a million articles but so far without any success in finding the answer...

The reason for wanting to know is that if the relation exists it would open for a very easy bundling of one single exe with another (binary data) file. I.e. using only the shell as the tool to create a new exe file containing customized data. Maybe this is in a way cheating on the resource concept but I know my client would love to be able to create new files himself (and so would I since that part is quite boring ).

The requirement is a single self sustained exe file for each distributed variant. So as far as I can see my options are either the concatenation way or a different build target for each variant.

All clever thoughts are welcome...