Inside `"src/jvmMain/resources"` I’ve my resources. If I run `./gradlew run` the app launches and I ...

# compose-desktop

[Guilherme Delgado]

Inside "src/jvmMain/resources" I’ve my resources. If I run ./gradlew run the app launches and I can use them, example: playSound(File("src/jvmMain/resources/sound.wav")) . But when I create a distribution or a package those resources aren’t included. I can see them inside build/processedResources but not in /build/compose/binaries/main/app/MyApp.app/Contents/app/resources . I’ve tried this:

with(project.file("src/jvmMain/resources")) {
    macOS { iconFile.set(resolve("icon.icns")) }
    linux { iconFile.set(resolve("icon.png")) }
    windows { iconFile.set(resolve("icon.ico")) }
    appResourcesRootDir.set(project.layout.projectDirectory.dir(this.path)) //<<<<<<<<<<<<<
}

But with no luck, still can’t “find them”. Funny thing, the icons (iconFile) are found and used 🤷‍♂️
Any hint? Thanks. I was looking into this docs.

[Michael Paus]

You cannot load resources in Java that way. You should use one of Class::getResource or Class::getResourceAsStream but the linked documentation is clearly saying that. And then your path is wrong too. It should be just /sound.wav without the src/jvmMain/resources part.

[Guilherme Delgado]

Thanks for your reply, but I’m interested in the second approach:

Adding files to packaged application

[Guilherme Delgado]

And thus my question, what am I doing wrong because I can’t see files under an installation directory.

[Michael Paus]

Sorry, but I cannot help you with the second approach. If done right, the first approach works nicely with minimum effort for desktop and Android. So I use it all the time.