babyxrc

The Baby X resource compiler (babyxrc) is a program to import binary data, such as images in most common formats, audio data, fonts, cursors, and text data, and output it as portable, compileable C source.

Input is the raw binary resource data (.jpegs, .wavs etc) and a simple xml file which lists the files and the format in which they are to be output. It's very easy to maintain. To avoid users having to maintain a tool chain, a few basic transformations like resizing images or resampling audio files to match the rate required by the program are included. Output is clean, compileable ANSI C source which should be accepted by any C compiler.

The Baby X resource compiler is portable, unlike the resource compilers which come packaged with monolithic IDEs. So it's far easier to maintain.