Embedding resources in executable using GCC

Question

I\'m looking for a way to easily embed any external binary data in a C/C++ application compiled by GCC.

A good example of what I\'d like to do is handling shader cod

Answer 1

You could do this in a header file :

#ifndef SHADER_SRC_HPP
#define SHADER_SRC_HPP
const char* shader= "

//source

";
#endif

and just include that.

Other way is to read the shader file.