* how far from a mach-o ld?
@ 2003-07-09 2:54 Adam Megacz
2003-07-11 14:23 ` Nick Clifton
2003-07-22 0:14 ` Stan Shebs
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Adam Megacz @ 2003-07-09 2:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: binutils
I've noticed that bfd supports mach-o... what (beyond various
configury) would be needed to produce a usable ld? It doesn't have to
be fast. I just need a powerpc-apple-darwin linker that can run on
i86-linux (Apple's hacked up ld is strewn with MacOSX-specific stuff).
- a
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* Re: how far from a mach-o ld?
2003-07-09 2:54 how far from a mach-o ld? Adam Megacz
@ 2003-07-11 14:23 ` Nick Clifton
2003-07-22 0:14 ` Stan Shebs
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From: Nick Clifton @ 2003-07-11 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: adam; +Cc: binutils
Hi Adam,
> I've noticed that bfd supports mach-o... what (beyond various
> configury) would be needed to produce a usable ld? It doesn't have to
> be fast. I just need a powerpc-apple-darwin linker that can run on
> i86-linux (Apple's hacked up ld is strewn with MacOSX-specific stuff).
Talk to Apple. They are currently working on and contributing the
Mach-O support. It seems that most of the code is already in, so you
may be able to get a working linker with only a little bit of work.
Cheers
Nick
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* Re: how far from a mach-o ld?
2003-07-09 2:54 how far from a mach-o ld? Adam Megacz
2003-07-11 14:23 ` Nick Clifton
@ 2003-07-22 0:14 ` Stan Shebs
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stan Shebs @ 2003-07-22 0:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Adam Megacz; +Cc: binutils
Adam Megacz wrote:
>I've noticed that bfd supports mach-o... what (beyond various
>configury) would be needed to produce a usable ld? It doesn't have to
>be fast. I just need a powerpc-apple-darwin linker that can run on
>i86-linux (Apple's hacked up ld is strewn with MacOSX-specific stuff).
>
It would be pretty heinous I think. New kinds of relocs, unusual
types of sections to create, etc. Mach-O is as different from ELF
as COFF is, and there are a lot of special options that you'd need
to build the variety of shlibs and execs that people use on Darwin.
GDB doesn't really need much of BFD to work, and that's the only
part that has been ported so far.
Stan
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