Super simple utility to create a header and C file tha contain the contents of a file (or files) as a constant char array. There are tons of progams to do this but I've found all I've tried lacking... https://www.devever.net/~hl/incbin https://gist.github.com/sivachandran/3a0de157dccef822a230 I really want cmake to "do the right thing" with dependencies, but it doesn't with a cmake script (that runs at config time not build time) and xxd would be a strong contender... but it's not universally available and there are limitations on naming scheme that I don't love. The main target of this is CMake, so future thoughts are to focus on macros and usage there, so there isn't a huge consideration for consistency on the constbin command line arguments as long as an eventual CMake macro of some sort maintains compatibility