Can we have resources in klib?

# kotlin-native

[Cherrio LLC]

Can we have resources in klib?

[mbonnin]

Not really https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-39194/Embedding-resources-to-Native-binaries

[mbonnin]

This one is a bit better https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-46753

[CLOVIS]

There is the same problem on KJS. Until this is implemented, I created a Gradle plugin to do this: https://gitlab.com/opensavvy/automation/kotlin-js-resources

Currently, it only supports KJS, because I don't use Native. However, if you submit an example project, I could add support for Native as well.

It works by creating a new multiplatform artifact (so, not in the klib directly) that is automatically published alongside the project to MavenCentral/MavenLocal etc.

[mbonnin]

@CLOVIS how would you embed & access the resources in the final binary? (a.out )

[CLOVIS]

Ah, the binary itself I don't know. Since the OP mentioned klib files, I assumed this was as part of a library.

[mbonnin]

Gotcha 👍

[mbonnin]

I’m interested in APIs to use those at runtime as well. My current quick & dirty solution for moderate size resources is to just encode them to strings which is very easy to do in a KMP way but is suboptimal (goes through decoding, cannot stream the resource, etc...)

[CLOVIS]

To clarify: my plugin allows to retrieve resources from other subprojects/dependencies as if they were part of the current project. After that, everything works exactly the same way as if you declared the resources in the project you're working on—so if K/N can't do much with that, my plugin won't help.

[CLOVIS]

That's probably very native-platform-dependent 😕

[Cherrio LLC]

@CLOVIS I want something that will end up in the final app bundle esp on iOS

[Cherrio LLC]

Same way compose resources does it.