nimres is a nim package used to bundle dependencys into a single file to be shipped with the executable that can store data from multiple other files.

both of these store the assets in the executable.

• nimdeps
• nimassets

install nimres

nimble install https://github.com/bob16795/nimres.git

create a files.nim file containing:

import nimres

const root = currentSourcePath()

resToc(root, "content.bin",
  "file1.txt",
  
  "file.txt|preprocessor"
  # more files
)

To use a preprocessor, write a script that takes in 2 paths, an input and an output. Then use the relative path after a | following the filename.

import files.nim in any files you want to refrence a resource:

import files

# get the contents as a string
echo $res"file1.txt"

# get the contents as a stream
var stream = res"file1.txt".openStream
stream.close()

# get the pointer of the contents
var dataPtr = res"file1.txt".getPointer

# get the size of the contents
var contents = res"file1.txt".size

get a list of the contents in files.nim

nim c -d:genContents -c files.nim 2>&1 | grep contents: | sed -e "s/contents: //" -e "s\#$$PWD/\#\#g"