[ECOS] Some issues with arm-elf-objcopy

Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch
Thu Aug 12 21:27:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:23:51PM -0700, Robert Allen wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'm using the sample examples in the ecos directory
> for the eb40a board. I guess the executables that I'm
> getting are of elf format, right, though it doesn't
> have an extension explicitly.

That is normal in the *nix world which does not use extensions on
executables.

> I want to convert this
> to a bin file and this is what I'm using --
> 
> arm-elf-objcopy -O binary standalone_serial
> standalone_serial.bin
> 
> am I doing right. 

Yes thats correct.

> I'm asking this because my flash
> programmer complains that there is an error in opening
> the .bin file.

The flash programmer might want SREC or some other format. What does
the documentation say?

        Andrew

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