Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:42:54 +0100 (MET)
From: Wojciech Piechowski <voyt AT ds2 DOT pg DOT gda DOT pl>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How to build a different output file?
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Wojciech Piechowski wrote:
> 
> > I neeed to create an executable file of different format to exe or coff
> > (my own format, not similar to anything). Should I mess in ld sources or
> > linker scripts are powerful enough?
> 
> If the format is very different from coff-go32, you will need to rebuild 
> Binutils.

I took a look into binutils. It seems that I need to write my own
definition script. Is there any good source to learn how to write this?
Or maybe I will choose one of those formats that already exist - where can
I find some docs on them (headers, segments, relocations) ?

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