Comment by bogwog

I don't know why you're running into that issue, but...

> It’s very sad, but it’s the only option I had because I have a ton of other code to write too for this app and cannot afford to spend the time to even make a binary format for this data.

You should look into Flatbuffers (https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_guide_use_s...). It's a tool that can generate an API for reading/writing binary data based on a schema file where you design the layout (similar to protocol buffers). The data is ready to read, so you don't have to do any parsing at all, AND the compiler includes a feature to convert JSON files into binary that matches your given schema.

It won't solve your compiler woes, but it will help you avoid having to store and parse JSON, and it's a tiny dependency.