Re: [Nasm-users] Unable to generate IA64 object file

[anonymous c. <nas...@us...>]

> Does anyone see what is wrong with this.  This is using version 2.04.
>
>         COMPILING: ../../examples/cpuidExample/cpuid.asm
>
> nasm -I../../src/ -I../../examples/ -f elf64 -DCPU=IA64 -o
> objs/examples/cpuidExample/cpuid.o ../../examples/cpuidExample/cpuid.asm

You successfully assembled x86 source code into
an ELF object file for x86-64. Looks like NASM did
work as expected.

>         LINKING: target/examples/cpuidExample
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/ia64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../ia64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> warning: i386:x86-64 architecture of input file
> `objs/examples/cpuidExample/cpuid.o' is incompatible with ia64-elf64 output

Your IA-64 linker refused to link the aforementioned
x86-64 object file into an IA-64 executable.

You should use an x86 or x86-64 linker instead and
create a 32- or 64-bit x86 binary. How you'd run that
binary on your IA-64 system is beyond the scope of
NASM. The original Itanium processors had support
for it in hardware, but the current ones rely on binary
translation.

In short: not a NASM problem.