From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17186 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2006 18:19:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 17173 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Sep 2006 18:19:47 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (194.72.81.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:19:42 +0000 Received: from mail.artimi.com ([192.168.1.3]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:19:39 +0100 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.1.165]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:19:39 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Cannot execute binary file Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:19:00 -0000 Message-ID: <014301c6d2aa$2eb33e90$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <45005FFE.6030302@unix.telasic.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00109.txt.bz2 On 07 September 2006 19:08, Arun Biyani wrote: > Recently, I've run into this "cannot execute binary file" problem. I > have not run this > program for 3-4 months but before that it would run fine in Cygwin. It > was compiled > and linked for Cygwin even though "file" command says linux. > [rom$:553] m68k-elf-objcopy -O binary umon_rom.elf umon_rom.bin > /bin/m68k-elf-objcopy: /bin/m68k-elf-objcopy: cannot execute binary file > [rom$:554] file /bin/m68k-elf-objcopy > /bin/m68k-elf-objcopy: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 > (SYSV), > for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for > GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped No. No way on earth did it ever run that file. If the file command says linux, then it IS linux. You must have overwritten your cygwin version at some stage with a linux version. > Session > transcript > below. Does anyone know if I can download a pre-built gcc toolchain for > Cygwin? I don't know of any but it's probably there are some out there, but if your compiler works and it's only your binutils you've got problems with, it's trivially easy to build cross-binutils from source on cygwin. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/