How to embed files into Golang binaries?

Question

I have some text file that I read from my Go program. I\'d like to ship a single executable, without supplying that text file additionally. How do I embed it into compilatio

Answer 1

Based on @CoreyOgburn comment and this Github comment, the following snippet was created:

//go:generate statik -src=./html

package main

import (
    _ "./statik"
    "github.com/rakyll/statik/fs"
)

func statikFile() {
    s, _ := fs.New()
    f, _ := s.Open("/tmpl/login.html")
    b, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(f)
    t, _ := template.New("login").Parse(string(b))
    t.Execute(w, nil)
}

and run

go generate

and subsequently

go build

should create a binary that contains the files