From:	"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP's DXE and Linux ld
Date:	Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:08:29
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> coff-go32 object files needed by dxegen. Then the problem was that ld
> couldn't convert from the elf object format generated by gcc to the
> coff-go32 object format. I tried the just compiled objcopy (part of
> binutils) to convert from elf to coff-go32, but the elf files generated
> by gcc contain multiple sections and so the produced coff-go32 file
> contains multiple sections too. However, dxegen can only handle files
> with one section.

The creation of a single section is actually handled by the supplied
ld script - if you end up with the multiple section message it means
that there was some section name not expected.  Someone at one time
suggested a wildcard syntax to catch them all (I don't remember the
details).  Fixing the ld script should solve your problem.

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