From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ELF and DJGPP
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:28:18 +0100
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Hello.

"Alexei A. Frounze" wrote:
> Well, a group of coders started a new project. It's OS development for
> Dummies. As a compiler and assembler DJGPP (DOS) and GCC (Linux) plus
> NASM have been chosen. So it's indeed possible to develop the project on
> both host OSes: MSDOS/MSWin32 and Linux. But DJGPP for DOS produces
> COFFs and GCC for Linux produces ELFs. So I wanna make my DJGPP
> producing ELFs as well as COFFs. Clear?

You can cross-compile DJGPP programs on Linux and other Unices. There are
instructions in a HOWTO here:

http://www.delorie.com/howto/djgpp/linux-x-djgpp.html

I imagine that you can build a DOS cross-compiler for Linux programs too.
Is this perhaps what you want?

HTH, bye,

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Richard Dawe
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