[clug] [Q] BinUtils ObjCopy - Does it?

[Andrew Over]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:24:30PM +1100, Donovan J. Edye wrote:

> I am looking to convert some OBJ files (in OMF Format) produced by Borland
> Delphi into OBJ files in COFF format for Visual C++. Does any one know if
> ObjCopy is capable of doing this? All pointers etc. appreciated.

I think your main problem is that libbfd doesn't seem to support either
of those file formats.

A recent multiarch binutils (from debian) claims support for the
following (after stripping out the non-x86 results):

    elf32-i386 
    a.out-i386-linux 
    efi-app-ia32 
    elf32-little 
    elf32-big 
    elf64-little 
    elf64-big 
    versados 
    ieee 
    a.out-zero-big 
    srec 
    symbolsrec 
    tekhex 
    binary 
    ihex 
    trad-core

COFF support on x86 seems dead, or at least not compiled by default (I
suspect it may not be too hard to revive).  As for OMF, I've no clue.

If libbfd did what you wanted, then the options you'd need would be
"--input-target" and "--output-target" (though an architecture
specification will be needed if thats not encoded in the bfdname).

Cheers,
--Andrew
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