I am building a desktop app for windows using comp...

# multiplatform

[fishy fish]

I am building a desktop app for windows using compose multiplatform. I have a .txt file i use as a resource.
I would like to build a .exe file with the .txt file embedded in it, so that users only need the .exe file to run the application.

To access the text file I am using:
val resourcesDir = File(System.getProperty("compose.application.resources.dir"))
val plainText = resourcesDir.resolve("csv\\countries.csv").readLines()

The structure of the project:
/composeApp
├── resources
│ ├── common
│ │ ├── csv
│ │ │ ├── countries.csv
├── src
│ ├── desktopMain
│ │ ├── kotlin
│ │ │ ├── repository
│ │ │ │ ├── data
│ │ │ │ │ ├── CountriesAndContinents.kt

When building with ./gradlew packageDistributionForCurrentOS i get an executable but it also generates app and runtime folders.

I tried building a .jar and packaging it with launch4j, but the generated .exe cannot find the resource file.

I tried with:
javaClass.getResource("composeApp/resources/csv/countries.csv")
javaClass.getResource("/compose/application/resources/csv/countries.csv")

But both calls return null.

[ephemient]

if you put it into src/desktopMain/resources/your/package/name/csv/countries.csv, you can access it with `your.package.name.AnyClass.getResource("csv/countries.csv")`/`.getResourceAsStream()`

[fishy fish]

@ephemient Thanks, this worked!

[Oluwafemi Ogundipe]

@fishy fish it’s @ephemient 👆🏼 not @Oluwafemi Ogundipe

[fishy fish]

My bad, corrected 🙂