including arbitrary files into the binary

[mandel]

Using dmd-1.021 I use this to initialize an AA:

ubyte[][char[]] files;

static this()
{
	files = [ cast(char[]) "data.txt" : cast(ubyte[]) import("data.txt") ];
}

Writing a program to generate a D code file is of course possible,
albeit not that elegant.

The only problem left is that I get an error starting my main program:
"object.Exception: Cyclic dependency in module Main"
because I have more that one static this in my application.

Walter Bright Wrote:

> 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.
Nice to know, that would spare the process of copying
files around.