Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:38:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: lukas@reichardt.ch Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a.out <-> GNU CC Message-ID: <19971017193844.40743@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34472f6e.11976311@1.1.1.17>; from Lukas Ruf on Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 09:27:22AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971016094858.2112E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <34472f6e.11976311@1.1.1.17>
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On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 09:27:22AM +0000, Lukas Ruf wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:50:20 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Lukas Ruf wrote: >> >>> Is there a possibility to link OBJs to a.out using ld / gcc ?? >> >> Do you mean DOS .OBJ's? No, the object format is completely different. > > I do not mean DOS .OBJs by writing OBJ. I use these three characaters > as a short form of Object Format. Confusing, isn't it? It would have been so much easier just to say 'object files'. >> If you mean, can FreeBSD compile to a.out format from source, yes, we >> haven't adopted ELF exclusively yet. > > I thank you a lot for this nice answer -- but how can I create a.out ? It's the default name. > Could you please give me the solution for gcc 2.7.x and ld ?? For any version of a UNIX C compiler: cc a.o b.o c.o In other words, you just specify the names of the object files. If you don't use -o, it will call the file a.out. Greg
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