[lelanthran]

> wanted to bake the version and the compilation time into the firmware. I didn't find a way to do this in plain C, but in C++ you can initialize a global struct and it gets statically linked into the output. This didn't even use constexpr, just preprocessor trickery.

I might be misunderstanding here, but if you are okay with preprocessor trickery, then it's doable.

I do this routinely in the Makefile, which (very tediously) generates a build_info module (header and implementation) that is linked into the final binary: https://github.com/lelanthran/skeleton-c/blob/8e04bed2654dac...