Passing data during "crystal build"

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Hello,

Is there a way to pass data during the crystal build? What I mean is similar to how it’s done in Go:

go build -ldflags "-X main.VariableName=VariableValue"

see article - https://blog.alexellis.io/inject-build-time-vars-golang/

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Prob could use env vars and https://crystal-lang.org/api/Crystal/Macros.html#env(name):StringLiteral|NilLiteral-instance-method to do this.

Something like:

puts "Hello World, version: #{{{env("VERSION")}}}"

VERSION=$(git rev-list -1 HEAD) crystal build test.cr
./test # => Hello World, version: 719d314879719eb98099459199d3493f09694841

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Wow, that’s actually way more convenient than in Go. Thank you, I’ll try it out!

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