bin2c

Simple utils written in C to generate C code or statically linkable object files from binary files.

Usage

bin2c

bin2c <infile> <outfile> <array_name>

Creates a C source file named outfile containing the entire byte stream of infile named array_name.

Example

Given the file helloworld.txt containing:

Hello, world!

The command bin2c helloworld.txt data.c data_bytes produces the file data.c with the following output:

/*	This file was automatically generated from the file helloworld.txt
	data_bytes contains the raw byte stream of the entire file. 			*/

const unsigned long data_bytes_size = 14;
const unsigned char data_bytes[14] =
{
	0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f, 0x2c, 0x20, 0x77, 0x6f, 0x72, 0x6c, 0x64,
	0x21, 0x0a
};

bin2o

bin2o <infile> <outfile> <array name> <header name>

Uses bin2c to create an intermediate C file as described above, then immediately compiles it to an object file and creates a corresponding header file so it can be linked and referenced.

Example

The command bin2o helloworld.txt data.o data_bytes data.h produces both data.h:

// data.h
#ifndef BIN2O_data_h_H_INCLUDED
#define BIN2O_data_h_H_INCLUDED

/* Generated by bin2o from file helloworld.txt */

extern const unsigned long data_bytes_size;
extern const unsigned char data_bytes[];

#endif

and data.o, which is to be linked statically and contains the data, of course.

Installation

Compile bin2c using gcc -o bin2c bin2c.c or similar. Just make sure the executable is actually named bin2c.

bin2o is a bash script, you might have to do chmod +x bin2o.

Then make sure both are on your PATH, eg by copying them to /usr/bin/.