Can I link a plain file into my executable? [duplicate]

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You could do this:

objcopy --input binary \
        --output elf32-i386 \
        --binary-architecture i386 my_file.xml myfile.o

This produces an object file that you can link into your executable.
This file will contain these symbols that you’ll have to declare in your C code to
be able to use them

00000550 D _binary_my_file_xml_end
00000550 A _binary_my_file_xml_size 
00000000 D _binary_my_file_xml_start

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