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| README - elf2flt |
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| Copyright (C) 2001-2003, SnapGear (www.snapgear.com) |
| davidm@snapgear.com |
| gerg@snapgear.com |
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| This is Free Software, under the GNU Public Licence v2 or greater. See |
| LICENSE.TXT for more details. |
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| Elf2flt with PIC, ZFLAT and full reloc support. Currently supported |
| targets include: m68k/ColdFire, ARM, Sparc, NEC v850, MicroBlaze, |
| h8300 and SuperH. |
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| COMPILING: |
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| You need an appropriate libbfd.a and libiberty.a for your target to |
| build this tool. They are normally part of the binutils package. |
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| To compile elf2flt do: |
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| ./configure --target=<ARCH> --with-libbfd=<libbfd.a> --with-libiberty=<libiberty.a> |
| make |
| make install |
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| The <ARCH> argument to configure specifies what the target architecture is. |
| This should be the same target as you used to build the binutils and gcc |
| cross development tools. The --with-libbfd and --with-libiberty arguments |
| specify where the libbfd.a and libiberty.a library files are to use. |
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| FILES: |
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| README - this file |
| configure - autoconf configuration shell script |
| configure.in- original autoconf file |
| config.* - autoconf support scripts |
| Makefile.in - Makefile template used by configure |
| elf2flt.c - the source |
| flthdr.c - flat header manipulation program |
| flat.h - header from uClinux kernel sources |
| elf2flt.ld - an example linker script that works for C/C++ and uClinux |
| ld-elf2flt - A linker replacement that implements a -elf2flt option for the |
| linker and runs elf2flt automatically for you. It auto |
| detects PIC/non-PIC code and adjusts its option accordingly. |
| It uses the environment variable FLTFLAGS when running |
| elf2flt. It runs /.../m68k-elf-ld.real to do the actual |
| linking. |
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| TIPS: |
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| The ld-elf2flt produces 2 files as output. The binary flat file X, and |
| X.gdb which is used for debugging and PIC purposes. |
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| The '-p' option requires an elf executable linked at address 0. The |
| elf2flt.ld provided will generate the correct format binary when linked |
| with the real linker with *no* '-r' option for the linker. |
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| The '-r' flag can be added to PIC builds to get contiguous code/data. This |
| is good for loading application symbols into gdb (add-symbol-file XXX.gdb). |
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