On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:29:19PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > > It is not so easy: > > Cygwin's libbfd, ld and objcopy support elf32-i386, gas does not. > > But ld refuses to output elf32-i386 if pe-i386 is the input format. This > restriction is hard-coded into ld because some pe-specific operations > are hard-coded into bfd backend (This includes the hack which fixes the > pc-relative relocation in the executable). > > Enable elf32-i386 as additional output format for gas does not work. The > compilation fails, multiple emulations are not supported on i386 platform. > > But even building gas as a cross-assembler does not help. Some assembler > directives, like symbol type specs, are output format specific. Output > from Cygwin's gcc produces syntax errors. > > Therefore, you would need also a gcc build as a cross-compiler.
Can't the whole toolchain include ELF support as an alternative target? Kinda like "-m32" on x86_64. I don't think it's unreasonable to request that Cygwin provides this (and it'd probably solve other problems somewhere else). Have you tried asking the Cygwin maintainers what they think about that? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
