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Re: Compiling memtest from sources on cygwin


"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:

> Windows binary format differs from ELF.  You need to port the program.

In this case, memtest86 is a self-standing binary that you stick on a
floppy and boot from, so it doesn't care what the OS is.  But it appears
that their build setup uses ELF-specific assembler directives to make
this bootloader, so 'porting' in this case would be rewriting their
assember/linker scripts to not use any ELF stuff -- probably not worth
the bother.

Brian

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