Javier Martín wrote: > El lun, 21-07-2008 a las 12:33 +0200, Christian Franke escribió: > > Bean wrote: > > > BTW, if you have time, you can consider writing a tool that > > > convert pe to elf directly, thus avoiding objcopy altogether. This > > > shouldn't be too difficult, you can take a look at > > > util/i386/efi/grub-mkimage.c, which does exactly the opposite, > > > converting elf to pe32. > > > > > > > due to the complexity of PE, a stand-alone converter may likely be > > larger than the ~680 LoC converter I already offered here. > Why do we even consider a PE->ELF converter? I think the easier way to > go would have the people building GRUB in cygwin (not exactly newbies) > to have an i386-pc-elf "cross compiler" built first, then use that for > the bootloader programs and the normal gcc for tools. Even a "naked" > (i.e. libraryless) cross compiler would work, since the bootloader > part of GRUB is does not need libs (in C terminology, it's > "freestanding"). > That way, we are free from "objcopy bugs" or "BFD design limitations". >
Yes, but this is not yet possible for the grub2 package in the Cygwin distro, see: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-07/msg00263.html Christian _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
