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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!199.94.215.18!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!news.india.hp.com!news From: Vivek Chopra <vivekc@india.hp.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.gcc.help Subject: Re: Convert Binary formats? Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 16:09:34 +0500 Organization: Hewlett Packard India Software Operation, Bangalore Lines: 20 Message-ID: <33350F6E.5826@india.hp.com> References: <5h0qhe$8i2@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: abhishek.india.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37585 gnu.gcc.help:19867 Gunther Schadow wrote: > > Hi all who are knowledgable, > > is it generally possible to convert binaries of different formats for > the same target architecture? In FreeBSD we have working binary > compatibility to Linux/ELF and IBCS2 (SCO) but I am wondering whether > it is not possible to convert them into a.out (all for i386 > architecture). Likewise, converting shared libraries into native > format would open a whole new world of portability, not only for > binaries, but also for development environments (APIs and libraries). > Can BFD do such a magic? Is anyone working on this? > Check out the binutils program `objcopy'. See the man page at http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/binutils/objcopy.1.html -- /* Vivek Chopra */ #include <std/disclaimer.h>