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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:24:11 +0100
From: Marcel Telka <marcel AT telka DOT sk>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Announce: ioperm-0.2.1 for cygwin released
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:11:07PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:06:23PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
> >$ objdump -x ioperm.sys 
> >BFD: ioperm.sys (.text): Section flag IMAGE_SCN_MEM_NOT_PAGED (0x8000000) ignored
> >BFD: ioperm.sys (.text): Section flag IMAGE_SCN_MEM_NOT_PAGED (0x8000000) ignored
> >objdump: ioperm.sys: File format not recognized
> >
> >:-(
> >
> >> That might be a way around this problem.
> >
> >I'm unaware about any way to compile & link a device driver using cygwin-only tools
> >:-(
> 
> AFAIAC, this is regrettable but it is not a problem.  There is no requirement that you
> have to use cygwin-only tools to build the package. As long as you include everything
> you need to build it with whatever tools are required, that should be ok.

Ok. I'm going to do some work for ioperm integration into mainstream cygwin...

> 
> However, if the above is the only thing standing in the way of getting cygwin tools
> to work, maybe a binutils change would be possible.

Yes. Binutils change is AFAIK possible (objdump is only a example, working ld is
required[*]) but I don't have free time (nor experience) to do this (big) work.

[*] or some conversion tool (.exe/.dll -> .sys) or whatever else to produce valid
    .sys files

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