Feels like Lua is a more exotic dependency. I used to use xxd but this gets problematic when files grow (and they don't need to grow much at all), objcopy is much faster (which I didn't think would matter much, but it did) and don't have the same issues that accidentally opening the .h file in your editor or code-searching having to traverse that mess.

Yes, you'd want to gitignore it and exclude it from search etc. but you still have size issues etc. See gucci-on-fleek's comment on objcopy above for usage.