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Originally Posted by MTK358
"-melf_i386" was suggested on the other forum and it worked.
From "ld --help | grep -- -m" (BTW I feel like I want to throw up if I ever see "ld --help" again):
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-m EMULATION Set emulation
How the *#$() am I supposed to know that that means "output format/architecture"? |
In English "emulation" means "behaving like, similarly". And it's indeed what you might need - by default your system is 64 bits, but you need linker
to behave like it's 32 bits, don't you ?
So, the next step is 'man ld':
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231 -memulation
232 Emulate the emulation linker. You can list the available emulations with the --verbose or -V options.
233
234 If the -m option is not used, the emulation is taken from the "LDEMULATION" environment variable, if that is defined.
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236 Otherwise, the default emulation depends upon how the linker was configured.
Then a qucik WEB search for LDEMULATION - because it looks like pretty unique name. In Yahoo the 5-th match:
http://www.xgc.com/manuals/m1750-ada/xgc-alu/x9277.html :
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A linker emulation is a "personality" of the linker, which gives the linker default values for the other aspects of the target system. In particular, it consists of
*
the linker script
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the target
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several "hook" functions that are run at certain stages of the linking process to do special things that some targets require
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Do you see "target" ? If you did read 'ld --help | less' did you see:
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158 ld: supported targets: elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux efi-app-ia32 efi-bsdrv-ia32 efi-rtdrv-ia32 elf32-little elf32-big elf64-alpha ecoff-littlealpha elf64-little elf64-
158 big elf32-littlearm elf32-bigarm elf32-hppa-linux elf32-hppa elf64-hppa-linux elf64-hppa elf64-x86-64 elf64-ia64-little elf64-ia64-big efi-app-ia64 efi-bsdrv-ia64 efi
158 -rtdrv-ia64 elf32-m68k a.out-m68k-linux elf32-tradbigmips elf32-tradlittlemips ecoff-bigmips ecoff-littlemips elf32-ntradbigmips elf64-tradbigmips elf32-ntradlittlemi
158 ps elf64-tradlittlemips elf32-powerpc aixcoff-rs6000 elf32-powerpcle ppcboot elf64-powerpc elf64-powerpcle aixcoff64-rs6000 elf32-s390 elf64-s390 elf32-sh-linux elf32
158 -shbig-linux elf32-sparc a.out-sparc-linux elf64-sparc a.out-sunos-big efi-app-x86_64 efi-bsdrv-x86_64 efi-rtdrv-x86_64 xcoff-powermac mach-o-be mach-o-le mach-o-fat
158 pef pef-xlib sym elf32-spu srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex trad-core
159 ld: supported emulations: elf_i386 i386linux elf_x86_64
160 ld: emulation specific options:
161 elf_i386:
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I.e. does the 'elf' substring ring a bell ? It's been mentioned in this thread, hasn't it ?
Again, if you did read "ld --help | less". did you see this:
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109 --oformat TARGET Specify target of output file
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And do you see the "format" in "--oformat" ?
Are you at all capable of relating
the same words in various parts of text ? Are you capable of finding in your brain a list of synonyms for a word you see ? This is all about
reading, comprehending, analyzing.
