binary file to konan.ImmutableBinaryBlob

[msink]

Currently if I want to embed some binary resource in executable, i need to dump it to something like

val `tetris_all.bmp` = immutableBinaryBlobOf(0x42, 0x4D, 0xF6, .....)

and add to source files.

It works, but IMHO is too complex for this simple task.
Can you please add some command-line and gradle-DSL options to do it directly, without intermediate tetris_all.bmp.kt file?

[joelhandwell]

Related SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51697533/how-to-include-text-blob-file-as-resource-to-be-compiled-together-as-executable

@msink so there are no way to do

fun main(arg: Array<String>){
   val text: String = accessResource("hello.txt")
   println(text)
}

for now in Kotlin/Native?

[msink]

@joelhandwell I do not know, closest is just compile it as String:

val `hello.txt` = """
...textfile...
"""

val text = `hello.txt`

Or as Map:

val __resources = mapOf("hello.txt" to """
...textfile...
""")

val text = __resources["hello.txt"]

[olonho]

Yeah, idea is good, but we not yet sure how it better be done. I see the following options:

• compiler switch like -binary variable_name,file_path which shall create an top level object
  named variable_name of type BinaryBlob with the content of the provided file
• Gradle DSL verb, like withBinary {} which produces source code artifact, which could be then linked regularly
• smth else

[SvyatoslavScherbina]

According to migrating issue tracking to YouTrack, closing this issue in favour of https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-39194