Embed image in code, without using resource section or external images

Question

I\'m looking for a way to embed an image in a library (Windows-only). I don\'t want to go the \'traditional\' way of putting it in the resources (because of special circumst

Answer 1

Google for a bin2c utility (something like http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0025274/bin2c/bin2c.c). It takes a file's binary representation and spits out a C source file that includes an array of bytes initialized to that data.

Just link the file in and you have your image sitting in a chunk of memory.

Using this kind of tool is really common on embedded systems where such things as 'resources' and even files might not exist.

Answer 2

The open source application Hexy is designed specifically for this. It runs on windows and linux. https://github.com/tristan2468/Hexy

Answer 3

The Gimp can export to C files. I think that would be the easiest way to do it.