[ld] ld COFF support??

suzuki toshiya mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Tue Oct 15 07:22:00 GMT 2013


There are so many variants of COFF, some are supported and others are not yet.
But if you focus on a variant by Microsoft, so-called "PE" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable ), binutils LD supports it.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On 10/15/2013 04:12 PM, Megora Chai wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For a school assignment we are looking at how different file formats are linked. I am trying to examine the linking process of some formats using ld from binutils. Is LD able to link COFF format files (.obj or .lib) generated by microsoft tools?
> 
> Thank you.
> M Chai



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