It's not "I don't want to learn my tools." It's "I don't want to learn and debug _everybody else who may possible want to build this otherwise portable C progr

It's not "I don't want to learn my tools." It's "I don't want to learn and debug _everybody else who may possible want to build this otherwise portable C program_'s tools." When those tools change how they do this unportable thing every couple of years in subtle and incompatible ways, which require #ifdef's to handle the different ways those linked against symbols can be accessed, multiplied by dozens of different platforms, then yes, I'm going to compile an 8MB literal.