RE: [ros-dev] Building Freeloader

[Brian Palmer]

At first, mingw couldn't generate 16-bit assembly. Then the problem was that
the mingw ld seemed to not like to fixup addresses that weren't aligned on a
32-bit boundary. IIRC, there was a jmp instruction that jmp'ed like two
bytes down or something and ld rounded it off to the nearest 32-bit address
which was it's own instruction, so it hung jmp'ing to itself. Long story
short, unless something has changed, instead of fixing ld to work with
16-bit code we put nop instructions in FreeLoader to fix (I mean hack) it.

Actually, I have not done any work on FreeLoader in at least a year and a
half. What kind of problems are you having with it?

-Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.com [mailto:[e-mail]] On
Behalf Of Phillip Susi
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:42 PM
To: ros-dev(a)reactos.com
Subject: [ros-dev] Building Freeloader

Hey Brian, I've been having all kinds of weird problems getting 
freeloader installed and working in a boot drive image for qemu.  I seem 
to remember you used to have to build it with djgpp instead of mingw for 
some odd reason.  I think it had something to do with mingw's ld 
clobbering something up when you asked it to output a binary flat file 
instead of a PE image.  Is this still the case?  Was that issue never 
resolved?




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