Comment by cowtools

Interesting. I look forward to this. What I've been doing now to embed a source.png file is something like this, where I generate source code from a file's data:

in embed_dump.cpp:

  #include <fstream>
  #include <iostream>
  int main(){
   std::ifstream f;
   f.open("./source.png");
   std::cout
    << "//automatically generated by embed_dump from project files:" << std::endl
    << "const char embedded_tex[] = {";
   char a;
   while(f.good()){
    f.read(&a,1);
    std::cout << int(a) << ",";
   }
   std::cout << "};" << std::endl;
   f.close();
  }

Then I set up my makefile like this (main_stuff.cpp #includes embedded_files.h):

  main_stuff: main_stuff.cpp embedded_files.h
   c++ main_stuff.cpp
  embeded_files.h: embed_dump source.png
   ./embed_dump > embeded_files.h
  embed_dump: embed_dump.cpp
   c++ embed_dump.cpp -o embed_dump