3 files changed, 17 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/src/isolate.rs b/src/isolate.rs
index 15a76ba3c..6e8b1864d 100644
--- a/src/isolate.rs
+++ b/src/isolate.rs
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ impl Isolate {
     });
     let shared = empty(); // TODO Use shared for message passing.
     let libdeno_isolate = unsafe {
-      libdeno::deno_new(snapshot::deno_snapshot.clone(), shared, pre_dispatch)
+      libdeno::deno_new(snapshot::deno_snapshot(), shared, pre_dispatch)
     };
     // This channel handles sending async messages back to the runtime.
     let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel::<(i32, Buf)>();
diff --git a/src/snapshot.cc b/src/snapshot.cc
deleted file mode 100644
index b0945d319..000000000
--- a/src/snapshot.cc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2018 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
-
-#include "deno.h"
-
-extern "C" {
-
-extern const char snapshot_start asm("snapshot_start");
-extern const char snapshot_end asm("snapshot_end");
-asm(".data\n"
-    "snapshot_start: .incbin \"gen/snapshot_deno.bin\"\n"
-    "snapshot_end:\n"
-    ".globl snapshot_start;\n"
-    ".globl snapshot_end;");
-extern const deno_buf deno_snapshot = {
-  nullptr, 0, reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(const_cast<char*>(&snapshot_start)),
-  static_cast<size_t>(&snapshot_end - &snapshot_start)};
-
-}
diff --git a/src/snapshot.rs b/src/snapshot.rs
index 52c8df47d..fcb41f6c8 100644
--- a/src/snapshot.rs
+++ b/src/snapshot.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 // Copyright 2018 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
 use libdeno::deno_buf;
-extern "C" {
-  pub static deno_snapshot: deno_buf;
+use std;
+
+pub fn deno_snapshot() -> deno_buf {
+  let data =
+    include_bytes!(concat!(env!("GN_OUT_DIR"), "/gen/snapshot_deno.bin"));
+  let ptr = data.as_ptr();
+  // TODO The transmute is not necessary here. deno_buf specifies mutable
+  // pointers when it doesn't necessarally need mutable. So maybe the deno_buf
+  // type should be broken into a mutable and non-mutable version?
+  let ptr_mut = unsafe { std::mem::transmute::<*const u8, *mut u8>(ptr) };
+  deno_buf {
+    alloc_ptr: std::ptr::null_mut(),
+    alloc_len: 0,
+    data_ptr: ptr_mut,
+    data_len: data.len(),
+  }
 }