man, I didn't use FASM for 8 months, I was pretty into it as I used it very often but now it's all kinda gone..

anyways, I want something like
path equ 'res/'
file path#'icon.ico'

actually it's for
icon main_icon,icon_data,path#'icon.ico'

Not sure if this is the easier way to do it but seems to work:

yeah, I reread that # is only for usage inside a macro which is why I'd need to wrap all my resource inclusion instructions in a macro the way your example does it, thanks. But I wondered if there's a one-liner which concats such string constants like on the fly. man, I really need to take a big look into FASM's manuals again..