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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: sh-elf-objcopy creates _large_ archos.bin outputRe: sh-elf-objcopy creates _large_ archos.bin output
From: Paul Suade <paul.suade_at_laposte.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:44:04 +0200 Take 'http://merwin.bespin.org/sh1cygwin/' for Cygwin under WinXP. It works for me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Wächter" <matthias_at_waechter.wiz.at> To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 10:25 AM Subject: sh-elf-objcopy creates _large_ archos.bin output > Hi folks! > > After successfully inserting and formating my new hard disk I immediately > tried Rockbox _for_the_first_time_. Remember your first time with Rockbox > (at least, remember your first time with Rockbox 1.3) and imagine what > great feeling it is to have now a firmware deserving this > classification... Finally: no unmotivated skips! Clever scrolling! Battery > level meter! Usefull settings! On-going development! Open Source! > > Second action right after awaking was to install the sh cross compiler. I > first installed it on my linux computer. I downloaded the current versions > binutils-2.13 and gcc-3.2 (shouldn't I?) and compiled them both as noted > in the Rockbox docs. All worked fine. Then came my first attempt to > compile Rockbox. > > In short: after 'make' created a rather small archos.elf file (about 88 > kB) sh-elf-objcopy converts it into an amazingly large archos.bin of 151 > MB (!) - of course that's too much for the scrambler. > > Is there any known incompatibility with latest gcc and binutils? (Then > maybe we should note this in the docs explicitly) > > I tried the cygwin-compiled sh-elf-objcopy from my XP machine but the > behaviour is the same. Or may there be something messy with the ELF file > itself irritating sh-elf-objcopy? > > As an intermediate solution I will continue by downloading the noted > binutils and gcc version, hope that helps. > > Sehr Wus, > - Matthias > > -- > "To get control over people, make them trust you. > To make people trust you > don't try to tell them the truth about history > but make happen what you told them about the future." > > Received on 2002-09-07 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |