diff --git a/docs/reference/exo-csource.xml b/docs/reference/exo-csource.xml
index 0a232bd..fa60787 100644
--- a/docs/reference/exo-csource.xml
+++ b/docs/reference/exo-csource.xml
@@ -104,6 +104,17 @@
             </para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>
+
+        <varlistentry>
+          <term><option>--output=identifier</option></term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Prints the output to <parameter>identifier</parameter> instead of
+              stdout (only used if <option>--build-list</option> was
+              not specified as well).
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </varlistentry>
       </variablelist>
     </refsect2>
   </refsect1>
diff --git a/exo-csource/main.c b/exo-csource/main.c
index 3a948a8..627e34f 100644
--- a/exo-csource/main.c
+++ b/exo-csource/main.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #include <glib.h>
 #include <glib/gi18n-lib.h>
 #include <glib/gprintf.h>
+#include <glib/gstdio.h>
 
 
 
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ static gboolean     gen_stripcomments = FALSE;
 static gboolean     gen_stripcontent = FALSE;
 static const gchar *gen_linkage = "static ";
 static const gchar *gen_varname = "my_data";
+static const gchar *out_name = NULL;
 
 
 
@@ -132,6 +134,23 @@ parse_args (gint    *argc_p,
           gen_stripcontent = TRUE;
           argv[n] = NULL;
         }
+      else if (strcmp (argv[n], "--output") == 0
+        || strncmp (argv[n], "--output=", 9) == 0)
+        {
+          s = argv[n] + 8;
+
+          if (G_LIKELY (*s == '='))
+            {
+              out_name = g_strdup (s + 1);
+            }
+          else if (n + 1 < argc)
+            {
+              out_name = g_strdup (argv[n + 1]);
+              argv[n++] = NULL;
+            }
+
+          argv[n] = NULL;
+        }
     }
 
   for (m = 0, n = 1; n < argc; ++n)
@@ -292,6 +311,7 @@ print_usage (void)
   g_print (_("  --build-list      Parse (name, file) pairs\n"));
   g_print (_("  --strip-comments  Remove comments from XML files\n"));
   g_print (_("  --strip-content   Remove node contents from XML files\n"));
+  g_print (_("  --output=filename Write generated csource to specified file\n"));
   g_print ("\n");
 }
 
@@ -324,6 +344,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   gchar   *data;
   gsize    length;
   gint     n;
+  FILE    *out_file;
 
   bindtextdomain (GETTEXT_PACKAGE, PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR);
 
@@ -348,6 +369,17 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
           return EXIT_FAILURE;
         }
 
+      if (out_name == NULL)
+          out_file = stdout;
+      else
+        {
+          out_file = g_fopen (out_name, "w");
+          if (out_file == NULL) {
+            g_fprintf (stderr, "Failed to open output file \"%s\"\n", out_name);
+            return EXIT_FAILURE;
+          }
+        }
+        
 #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
       filename = g_local_to_utf8 (argv[1], -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 #else
@@ -362,7 +394,10 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
           return EXIT_FAILURE;
         }
 
-      print_csource (stdout, data, length, filename);
+      print_csource (out_file, data, length, filename);
+
+      if (out_file != NULL && out_file != stdout)
+        fclose (out_file);
 
       g_free (data);
     }