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This is the cousin of this question over here asking the same thing for C.

Basically, is there a better way than to just turn it into a giant byte array and putting it in a source file?

Alternatively, does a macro have the ability to do this? (Rust Macros... are a dense looking and their exact capabilities are not known to me.)

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You probably want include_bytes!.

If you are in older versions of Rust, use include_bin! instead.

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Perfect. :) I had a feeling a macro would do it, but google didn't come up with anything and I just didn't think to search there :)
Note that this macro has been renamed to include_bytes! in newer Rust versions.
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You could alternatively use this tool https://github.com/pyros2097/rust-embed Which was created by me which generates rust code for your resources.

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Would you recommend using this for a 50 MB binary file which I plan to parse with nom? Thanks
Yeah go for it. The only thing that I could see that be a problem is in release mode the macro will generate a Vec<u8> which is going to have 50MB of code generated. I don't know how long rust will take to compile the code and whether the code will get generated properly in the first place since I haven't tested with such a large file.

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