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From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: i-love-spam <i-love-spam@yandex.ru>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: ARM-ELF -> PE-COFF with objcopy
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F7146C.6000600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3mya0kgpb.fsf@google.com>

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> I don't really understand what you are trying to do or why you are using
> ELF at all.  Why not just compile your code into PE format in the first
> place?
> 
> The only realistic way that you can create a PE DLL is to compile code
> with a PE compiler.  Otherwise you aren't going to get the right code
> sequences and relocations.  It is theoretically possible to pursue other
> paths but they are all going to be complex and difficult.

  What about this whole ELF->PE post-linking stuff that symbian arm-eabi
targets apparently do?  Could that be adapted for wince?

    cheers,
      DaveK

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-28 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-27  9:45 pps
2009-04-27 14:33 ` Nick Clifton
2009-04-27 16:26   ` pps
2009-04-27 21:21     ` i-love-spam
2009-04-27 22:49       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-04-28  7:24         ` i-love-spam
2009-04-28  7:45           ` Nick Clifton
2009-04-28  8:31             ` i-love-spam
2009-04-28 10:44               ` Nick Clifton
2009-05-08 20:55               ` i-love-spam
2009-05-09 17:20                 ` Dave Korn
2009-04-28 14:15           ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-04-28 14:25             ` Dave Korn [this message]
2009-04-28 15:46               ` pps
2009-04-28 16:07                 ` Dave Korn
2009-04-28 16:56                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-04-28 17:29                   ` Pedro Alves
2009-04-28 17:33                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-04-28 21:09                       ` Dave Korn
2009-05-07  6:58                         ` pps
2009-05-07  9:38                           ` Vincent R.
2009-05-07 12:27                             ` Dave Korn
2009-05-07 12:34                               ` Vincent R.
2009-05-08  8:31                             ` pps
2009-05-08  8:32                             ` pps
2009-04-28 16:44                 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2009-04-28 16:52                   ` pps

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