Is there any standard way of embedding resources into Linux executable image? [duplicate]

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Make yourself an assembler file, blob.S:

    .global blob
    .global blob_size
    .section .rodata
blob:
    .incbin "blob.bin"
1:
blob_size:
    .int 1b - blob

Compile with gcc -c blob.S -o blob.o
The blob can now be accessed from within your C program with:

extern uint8_t blob[];
extern int blob_size;

Using a bin2c converter usually works fine, but if the blob is large, the incbin solution is much faster, and uses much less memory (compile time)

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