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From: elric AT wheel DOT ucdavis DOT edu (Jeffrey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help with V2 needed
Date: 3 May 1996 16:45:45 GMT
Organization: Davis Community Network - Davis, California, USA
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R.L.S. Smith (rlss2 AT thor DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
: 	I have installed DJGPP V2 on my computer but when I try to compile 
: something I get an error message: stubify.exe hello.exe not COFF. The 
: compilation works fine up until this point. The command I used was:

: 	gcc -v -o hello.exe hello.c

Try:
	gcc -v hello.c -o hello

gcc normally outputs COFF format, which stubify adds executable stub to 
that loads a COFF executable to.  gdb expects the COFF file, so it is 
happy.  MS-DOS expects a .EXE format file and coughs on the COFF.  The 
above line genrates  a COFF file in hello. and EXE executable in 
hello.exe.  "gdb hello" debugs the COFF in "hello." and "hello" at the 
MS-DOS prompt runs "hello.exe" and everyone is happy.

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