Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:47:40 +0100
From: Peter Restall <pete AT restall DOT net>
Message-Id: <199908121447.PAA01120@burdock.restall.net>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Re: ELF and DLLs
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com


On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:26:07 +0300 (IDT), Eli kindly responded:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Peter Restall wrote:
> 
>> The first is, can I compile ELF binaries with DJGPP ?
> 
> No, not unless you reconfigure Binutils to include ELF support and then 
> rebuild Binutils from sources.
That's OK.  I'll get the source and check it out (ftp.gnu.org ?)

>> I'm interested because I wish to create my own dynamic-library routines
>> that work under Linux (which uses ELF) and hopefully under DJGPP as well.
> 
> Note that object code usually includes hidden dependencies on some 
> private features of the library on the platform where they were compiled.
> So object files compiled on Linux might not link with DJGPP-compiled
> code, unless the sources compiled on Linux didn't call any functions
> from libc.a.
Sorry, I should have been more clear.  I meant that I'd have one source
dump for Linux-based machines and one for DOS-based machines.  I'd compile the
DOS binary and the modules separately to the Linux ones.  Like what Quake II
did with its video code.  Is that feasible ?  Is there format more suited to
DLLs that I could use (and get GCC to compile binaries in it) ?  Thanks,

	Pete =:-)


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