On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:22:33AM +1100, Gareth Pearce wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:13 AM >Subject: Re: Why won't my files link? > > >> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:09:27PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >> >Chris, you're skim-reading too fast... >> > >> >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> You need to '#include <stdio.h>' in io_functions.c. >> > >> > >> >> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:23:45PM -0500, Nick Miller wrote: >> > >> >... here's the problem: >> > >> >>> 2) I used the SAME io_functions.o file in both Cygwin and Linux. >> >>> This file was generated by a CS professor at my school using GCC. >> >> No, I wasn't skim reading. I was assuming that no one would actually >> take an object file from linux and attempt to use it on windows. > >Interesting, where as my assumption was your assumption was that despite the >fact that indeed there are people out there crazy enough to use the same .o >file - it wouldnt give that error.
Um, er, right, I think. I am actually surprised that ld managed to get that far into linking the file. That seems to mean that you could make an elf-format object file with all of the right function "linkages" for cygwin and link it on Windows. I know that, these days, binutils can handle multiple different formats by default but I never worked through that this could result in this kind of behavior. Learn something new... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/