I found that gnu-binutils on my GNU/Linux system (FC11) do not support COFF format while it was supported on some other unix-like OS (NetBSD).
Is there a way to get the binutils to support the COFF format? How? Are there any other packages which would support COFF format? I am particularly interested in the archiver, since ar doesn't seem to understand COFF and my cross-linker fails to find the symbol table in the library. A little history for who is interested: I have been assigned a project on an old dsp from Analog Device and I bumped in the g21k cross-compiler which is based on gcc and was released under GPL. After some work to make it compile under my system, I managed to have almost everything I needed: - compiler (g21k) - assembler (asm21k) - linker (ld21k) - coffdump (cdump21k) I also managed to compile the whole C-runtime library that Analog Devices provides in source code within the VisualDSP software (a software development environment). Unfortunately if I use /ar/ apparently the symbols directory is not created and the linker is not able to access objects in the library. I have been informed that gnu-binutils on NetBSD supports COFF, but I haven't managed to install it on my system. The archiver is the only missing piece to the whole list of tools I need to develop software for this architecture, that's why it is a little frustrating to give it up after all the work done so far. Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
