Can you give an example?

Sure. I'm extracting and precomputing some data from the commits in my repository using https://www.eclipse.org/jgit/

I need the data in the executable, but not the code to produce it

Maybe just spit that out as an .edn file and then include the .edn file as a resource?

though about it, but I'd rather not

when developing I want to be able to run the computation continuously

I mean, whenever I need it

and sticking it in a resource means I'd have to recompute/reload it manually

you could do it in a macro which runs at compile time and the compiled bytecode would contain the result

yeah that'd be ideal

but since eclipse git stuff probably uses security stuff, I'd expect that you would not be allowed to do this at build time, but worth a try

I'm wondering how I would actually structure my code so that the dependencies don't get pulled in

I would probably not use eclipse git stuff at all, just shell out to git instead

yeah, can't do that

if I make my macro call a function, will that function get compiled in?

i.e. would I have to stick all the code in the macro?

...and if I do that, would graalvm still build the jgit classes I (:include) into the native image?