On Linux you can use "ld -o myobj.o -r -b binary myfile.dat" and it will generate a linkable object file that contains your file data as a byte array. However,

On Linux you can use "ld -o myobj.o -r -b binary myfile.dat" and it will generate a linkable object file that contains your file data as a byte array. However, other platforms do it other ways, so it's generally easier to use "xxd" from the vim package to generate a C source file with a literal array, similar to the way that XPM works. That will work on all platforms.