including arbitrary files into the binary

[Walter Bright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> You could write a D program that does all this machination for you as a 
> build step or so.  It could copy all the files to a directory, come up with 
> an AA, write out a .d file with the AA declaration and the imports, and then 
> compile that into an object, which you then link into your program. 


For the AA declaration you can use hex string literals for the binary data:

x"00 0A FD EE"

etc. They're easy for a simple D program to generate.