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Subject: Re: cannot execute binary on AMD Turion based laptop
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:28:02AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 24 July 2006 10:15, Keshavan Varadarajan wrote:
>>I have a laptop with AMD Turion processor running Windows XP SP2.  I
>>have installed cygwin on my laptop.  I am having problems executing the
>>programs I have compiled using gcc (that comes along with Cygwin).  The
>>following error is reported: $ ./dineroIV ./dineroIV: ./dineroIV:
>>cannot execute binary file
>>
>>I have checked the permissions on the file and it does have execute
>>permissions.  The file command indicates that it is a binary.

>>$ file dineroIV
>>dineroIV: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linu x 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5,  not stripped
>
> <boggle>  You appear to have inadvertently used a linux cross-compiler
>instead of the cygwin native gcc.

Either that or there's both a linux binary without an extension there
along with a cygwin binary with a .exe extension.

But wasn't this really obvious from the output of file?

cgf

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