Re: [Mingw-users] Configuring and building ld linker to generate ELF files on Windows for cross compilation to linux 32 & 64bit

[George K. <xke...@ne...>]

On 3/29/2014 11:24 PM, Kim wrote:
> If I take the object
> files generated by clang over to linux I can successfully link them but
> on windows ld gives me a message "invalid file format".

You can't use Windows ld to link Linux programs.
$ ld -V
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
   Supported emulations:
    i386pe

This ld only supports i386pe; it will always output .exe files for Windows.

You need a cross-ld that can link ELF files for Linux. I don't know how 
to build a cross-binutils. You also need the crt files and libc for 
Linux. You want clang to automatically call your cross-ld and pass the 
crt files and libc.
--George Koehler