Re: [Mingw-users] ld emulation issue

[James T. <jam...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Kai Tietz <kti...@go...> wrote:
> 2009/1/5 James Trickel <jam...@gm...>:
>> what does the following error mean?
>>
>> crt2.o: file not recognized: File format is ambiguous
>> crt2.o: matching formats: coff-i386 pe-i386
>>
>> from the following command:
>>
>> ld -mi386pe --oformat pei-i386 --subsystem console -s crt2.o
>> <snip(more .o's)> -o file.exe
>>
>> ld shows the following:
>> supported emulations: elf_i386_ldso elf_i386 elf_x86_64 i386pe
>> supported targets: elf32-i386 coff-i386 elf64-x86-64 elf64-little
>> elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big pe-i386 pei-i386 srec symbolsrec
>> tekhex binary ihex
>>
>> OS: solaris 10 x86
>> binutils: 2.19 from mingw
>> gcc: 3.4.6
>>
>> TIA,
>> -James
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Eddie Izzard  - "I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from."
>
> Hi James,
>
> you have to add the option '-m i386pe' here. You need to specify the
> emulation to be used directly, because ld has otherwise conflicts to
> find the proper emulation. By specifying this option, it should work.
>
> Cheers,
> Kai
>

I'm confused.....
The command I am using(below) has the '-mi386pe' option... am I
missing something?

>> ld -mi386pe --oformat pei-i386 --subsystem console -s crt2.o
>> <snip(more .o's)> -o file.exe

TIA,
-James
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