Re: ARM-ELF -> PE-COFF with objcopy

["Vincent R." <forumer@smartmobili.com>]

On Thu, 07 May 2009 02:58:16 -0400, pps <i-love-spam@yandex.ru> wrote:
> ....
> 
> Just a little update.
> After trying and failing all possible combinations and ideas I decided 
> to abandon my idea of converting elf to coff. Right now I'm working on 
> some other project and as part of the project I need to compile some 
> code with cegcc. I just found out that no matter what and how I build 
> anything with cegcc it won't even load on my phone 
> (ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT). Exactly the same binary works on emulator just 
> fine, but doesn't work on the device and produces data abort if I try to 
> LoadLibrary("dll name"). I tried a simple HelloWorld app - same problem. 
> So, it's very possible that while I tried to convert elf->coff I had a 
> working coff object, but the binary built at the end would never work 
> because I used real device for testing. I'll post to cegcc mailing list 
> to see if the problem was resolved.
> 
> Thanks

If you are testing on a Windows Mobile 6.1 cegcc binaries are not working
because
PE loader is very strict on this platform.
Please give more information on the platform you are testing.

Thanks