Re: COFF to ELF translator

Lucile Cognard writes:
: Does it exist a translator from COFF format to ELF format?


Troy DeJongh <troyd@dgii.com> wrote:
>Look at binutils from the GNU distribution. There is a program called
>'objcopy' that will allow you to do this. I've taken COFF executables from
>SCO UNIX and put them on my Solaris 2.5 X86 box and done a:
>
>objcopy -I coff-i386 -O elf32-i386 sco_coff_file new_elf_file


Another data point...


I believe most SVr4 implementation supply a program called `cof2elf'.


The following is a excerpt from the man page for the program on Solaris
2.4 on Sparc. (I know that `cof2elf' also exists for SVr4 on x86 system
too.)


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
cof2elf(1) User Commands cof2elf(1)


NAME
          cof2elf - COFF to ELF object file translation


SYNOPSIS
          cof2elf [ -iqV ] [ -Qy|n ] [ -s directory ] files


AVAILABILITY
          x86


          SUNWbtool


DESCRIPTION
          cof2elf converts one or more COFF object files to ELF. This
          translation occurs in place, which means that the original
          file contents are modified. If an input file is an archive,
          each member will be translated as necessary, and the archive
          will be rebuilt with its members in the original order.
          cof2elf does not change input files that are not COFF.


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