Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 10:49:21 -0700 (PDT) From: garyh@agora.rdrop.com (Gary Hanson) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: MASM, and coff, and elf, oh my! Message-ID: <m0ulfOb-0008vAC@agora.rdrop.com>
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2.1.5 does _not_ support Linux elf format, right? Pity. I -really- don't want to run current at the moment. I have a Linux app that I'd like to port to FreeBSD, but it doesn't look like it'll be easy. Most of the work is done by routines written in Microsoft assembler. The author then ran the coff-format output of MASM through some linux program that elf-ized them. I have the coff and elf binaries, but not the MASM sources (but I can probably get them). So, it looks like I'd need one or more of the following: 1. To run FreeBSD-current and use the already-built elf executable (This option is ruled out by definition). 2. A MASM-to-GAS translator (These exist [where?], but are not painless and automatic, right?) 3. A linker that can read coff or elf object files (I don't think this exists in BSD). There's also the question of whether the MASM routines would work properly under BSD WRT register usage, stack usage etc, but I'm optimistically not worrying about that right now. Should I worry? Here's some info about the files I've got at the moment: % file factor64.obj factor64.obj: 80386 COFF executable not stripped - version 22597 This file is then massaged in Linux by: objcopy -Oelf32-i386 factor64.obj factor64.o Giving: % file factor64.o factor64.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable i386 (386 and up) Version 1 Is there any hope of eventually making a FreeBSD-native version of this app? --Gary Hanson
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