Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin
alexeik@nordlines.ru
alexeik@nordlines.ru
Sun Jun 19 23:11:00 GMT 2005
Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> You could probably get what you want by building a cross-binutils. Get
> the binutils source and build with "./configure --host=i686-pc-cygwin
> --target=i686-pc-linux". Then build memtest with "./configure
> --target=i686-pc-linux" which should cause it to use the
> 'i686-pc-linux-as' you just built instead of Cygwin's 'as' which doesn't
> grok ELF. If memtest has more than just assembly files (i.e. C code
> too) you'd probably need to build a cross-gcc as well. The whole
> crosscompiler business is better covered elsewhere, as it's not
> Cygwin-specific.
>
> Brian
>
Gerrit, Brian, thanks.
Now I got the idea. Actually, memtest is just a sample program, I wanted
to know *how* can I write program, which can be loaded from floppy.
Now, I think, I know where to go next.
Thanks again,
Alexei
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