Bundling binaries with releases

[madshargreave]

Hi

I have an application in which I reference various C binaries like a HTML2PDF generator, how can these be bundled in an OTP release?

[jwarlander]

You’d need to put them in the priv/ directory somewhere… like priv/bin/html2pdf, etc. Then you’ll need to refer to them using your application’s priv path.

See a previous post on the matter:

Is it possible to include resource files when packaging my project using Mix/escript?

Hey! That is precisely what the /priv folder is for in your project root. It’ll get packaged up along with your application when you build a release. If you have a data.xml file in your /priv directory you can get to it in your code by doing Path.join(:code.priv_dir(:my_app), "data.xml")