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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:44:44 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: s_m_siddiqi AT yahoo DOT com
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In-reply-to: <20000716165737.21932.qmail@web4602.mail.yahoo.com> (message from
	Suhaib Siddiqi on Sun, 16 Jul 2000 09:57:37 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: ld -r Unsupported PEI arch pe-i386
References:  <20000716165737 DOT 21932 DOT qmail AT web4602 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com>


> Unsupported PEI architecture: pe-i386
> 
> Any suggestions?  I am using Cygwin 1.1.2 and the
> binutils from the "latest"

I think the problem is that the linker is using PEI instead of PE.
PEI is *only* for executables, PE is *only* for objects.  When you do
"ld -r" it's trying to produce an object, but if it doesn't
know to switch formats, it will have a problem.

Try "ld -r --oformat pe-i386 ..."

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