You may want to checkout the CMRC library (CMake Resource Compiler) [0].

[0]: https://github.com/vector-of-bool/cmrc

Neat. Looks a little more complex than it needs to be though, and I'm surprised it targets C++ (and even relies on exceptions) with no support for C.

perfect

nice!

I used to have this automated as part of a makefile, so I'd say yes.

You can use add_custom_command() to run a script that generates an assembly file using the incbin directive.