Re: cross compiling a linux application for zlinux using debian
On 2009-12-22, Daniel Moshief wrote:
> I am new to linux and am attempting to rebuild an existing linux i386
> application to run on zlinux by making small modifications to the build
> by having it cross compile on a vmware debian linux image. When an ar
> command is run in the build, I am getting an error:
>
> emulation options:
> No emulation specific options
> ar: supported targets: elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux efi-app-ia32
> elf32-little elf32-big elf64-alpha ecoff-littlealpha elf64-little
> elf64-big elf32-littlearm elf32-bigarm elf32-hppa-linux elf32-hppa
> elf64-x86-64 elf64-ia64-little elf64-ia64-big efi-app-ia64 elf32-m68k
> a.out-m68k-linux coff-m68k versados ieee a.out-zero-big
> elf32-tradbigmips elf32-tradlittlemips ecoff-bigmips ecoff-littlemips
> elf32-ntradbigmips elf64-tradbigmips elf32-ntradlittlemips
> elf64-tradlittlemips elf32-powerpc aixcoff-rs6000 elf32-powerpcle
> ppcboot elf64-powerpc elf64-powerpcle aixcoff64-rs6000 elf32-s390
> elf64-s390 elf32-shbig-linux elf32-sh-linux elf32-sh64-linux
> elf32-sh64big-linux elf64-sh64-linux elf64-sh64big-linux elf32-sparc
> a.out-sparc-linux elf64-sparc a.out-sunos-big efi-app-x86_64
> elf32-m32r-linux elf32-m32rle-linux elf32-spu srec symbolsrec tekhex
> binary ihex trad-core
> What does ar want as syntax for emulation options?
> ar elf32-s390 -r ...... does not work
> I am executing the "ar" that is part of the s390-linux-gnu/bin so I
> assume it knows that it is in cross compilation mode..... but I suppose
> ar needs to know whether it is 32 or 64 bit mode...
> thank you,
> Daniel Moshief
> EMC Corp.
I have never used ar directly. It may have been invoked "under the covers"
from a script that I have run, but I've never invoked it directly from
the command line. However, the man page for GNU ar has this info in it:
ar ignores an initial option spelt -X32_64, for compatibility with AIX.
The behaviour produced by this option is the default for GNU ar. ar
does not support any of the other -X options; in particular, it does
not support -X32 which is the default for AIX ar.
I don't know if this is what its looking for or not. Maybe you need a leading -X?
Other than that I don't know what to suggest.
I've never run into anything like that before.
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