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From: timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net ()
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Subject: Re: COFF2EXE / GO32 problems - makefile (0/1)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:44:49 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:


>On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Tim Olmstead wrote:

>> Thanks to the help I got on my last question, I have gottne my (LARGE)
>> program to link. No, I am having trouble getting it to run. When I try
>> to run it with GO32, I get this :
>> 
>> GO32 ASIMUT.EXE (I typed)
>> GO32 v1.12
>> unknown file type 0x14c (0514)
>> 
>> What does this mean?
>> 
>> If I try to run COFF2EXE on it, I get :
>> 
>> COFF2EXE ASIMUT.EXE (I typed)
>> Sector not found reading drive C
>> Abort, Retry, Ignor, Fail?

>How was ASIMUT.EXE generated?  Is it the output of a command like this:

>	gcc .... -o ASIMUT.EXE ...

>If so, just rename it to ASIMUT (without any extension).  Then you should 
>be able to either run it with go32:

>	go32 ASIMUT

>or run COFF2EXE on it (which will create ASIMUT.EXE) and run ASIMUT.EXE 
>as any other DOS program:

>	coff2exe ASIMUT
>	ASIMUT

>If the above doesn't work, please post the GCC command line that you used
>to build your program. 

It doesn't! Here is the makefile I used. The labels used are defined
in another file. I don't think they are the problem, so I didn't
include the other file. I will if you think I need to. When I try the
above suggestion, I still get the invalid file type error message.

Tnx,

Tim Olmstead
timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net