Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 09:29:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On 15 Nov 1999, Jonathan M Hill wrote:

>      I'm a college student and recently came accross a comment that the
> Gnu linker ld will also locate code for embedded development use.
> This immediately hit me, does DJGPP use the ld linker and can anyone
> help me find the documentation?

DJGPP does indeed use the GNU linker.  It is part of the Binutils
package, which is available as bnuNNNb.zip (where NNN is the version
number) from the v2gnu directory of the usual DJGPP sites.  The docs
for ld are part of Binutils as well.

>      I have used DJGPP and like it.  If I could develop embedded '86
> applications using DJGPP that would be sweet.

Note that you might need to rebuild Binutils to support the target
binary format, unless the version built for DJGPP already supports
that format.  When Binutils are built, they are first configured to
support a certain list of targets; you can see the list of supported
targets by typing, e.g., "ld --help".