diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 3f8f21d..c3c452a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -364,11 +364,8 @@ target_link_libraries(${TWN_TARGET} PUBLIC
 add_custom_command(
         OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/font.o
         WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_LINKER} --relocatable --format binary
-                --output ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/font.o
-                share/assets/Dernyns256.ttf
-        DEPENDS share/assets/Dernyns256.ttf
-)
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR=${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} sh bin/prep-embed.sh
+        DEPENDS share/assets/Dernyns256.ttf)
 
 add_custom_target(asset-compilation ALL DEPENDS
         ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/font.o)
diff --git a/bin/prep-embed.sh b/bin/prep-embed.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..60dda04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/prep-embed.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/env sh
+set -e
+# packages embedded resources with objcopy, so that it is more portable
+# ld.lld on windows doesn't recognize --format binary, sadly
+
+objdump=$(objdump -i)
+bdfname=$(echo "$objdump" | sed -n 2p)
+objcopy -I binary -O "$bdfname" share/assets/Dernyns256.ttf "$CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR/font.o"