make_webserver

make_webserver encodes the full contents of a directory into a single portable executable that serves the files over HTTP.

Running make_webserver [DIR] will generate a new executable ./webserver which has all of the contents of directory DIR embedded into a dedicated segment within the binary that is loaded when ./webserver is executed. This allows the webserver binary to statically serve the contents snapshotted from DIR without ever reading from the filesystem.

The generated binary has no external dependencies.