Is there a good way to include external resource data into Rust source code?

Question

Imagine the following example:

let SHADER: &\'static str = \"
#version 140

attribute vec2 v_coord;
uniform sampler2D fbo_texture;
varying vec2 f_texcoor         


        

Answer 1

I believe you are looking for the include_str!() macro:

static SHADER: &'static str = include_str!("shader.glsl");

shader.glsl file should be located right beside the source file for this to work.

There's also include_bytes!() for non-UTF-8 data:

static SHADER: &'static [u8] = include_bytes!("main.rs");

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Don't conflate these with include!, which imports a file as Rust code.