Re: MS-COFF Object Files

gleeh@tulletts.sprint.com wrote:


> [There's a GNU object library, but I don't recall having seen an MS
> backend for it. -John]


The latest GNU binutils (2.7) has support for PE (Portable Executable -
that's Microsoft's object format - a COFF derivative) for several
architectures (Intel X86, PowerPC and ARM).


You can generate a "libbfd.a" for the appropriate backends you are
interested in (in this case, I suspect just the one: PE/ix86), and make
calls to it to read and write object files.


PE is documented reasonably well in the Visual C++ documentation, and there
is a whole bunch more documentation on PE in the Microsoft Developers'
Network CDs. (For those who feel like paying $$ for it).


You can get the latest binutils by poking around in prep.ai.mit.edu
(anonymous ftp, under /pub/gnu).


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