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Re: creating working PE file with BFD

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: peter matula <xmatul01 at stud dot fit dot vutbr dot cz>
Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:15:03 +0100
Subject: Re: creating working PE file with BFD
References: <4C49748C.8060500@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>

Hi Peter,

I transformed PE->COFF->PE and try
to run output file. It didn't work

Not that surprising really. Translating between different file formats is hard and I am amazed that your ELF->COFF->ELF translation actually worked.

Is BFD able to create valid PE file in general ?

Yes.

Has someone experience doing something similar, any advices ?

Not that I have heard.

What other changes are necesssary except changing target ?

Lots. Basically the binutils codebase is not intended to support this kind of translation, so there are probably lots of areas that would need work.

how is creating PE by BFD different from creating ELF ?

Different source files are used inside the BFD library.

Cheers
  Nick

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