Re: [Tinycc-devel] add an executable format?

[tccm]

Hello Brian,

Thanks a lot for your support.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:05:54AM +0000, Brian Callahan wrote:
> > Answering an off-list question:
> 
> Guessing I'm the off-list question.

You are right.

> I found an elf2aout converter for Minix buried in the Minix3 source tree.

A nice catch. I found the less relevant variants of elf2aout, in NetBSD,
FreeBSD and RetroBSD. Used the RetroBSD one as a starting point.

> Here is a patch to generate a.out executables. As I don't have a Minix2
> machine, I can't verify it works. But it should get you there, or very
> close to there. If there's some VirtualBox image of Minix2 that I can
> download, I can test myself.

Unfortunately, I am only aware of public 16-bit Minix-2 images, they
would not help.

I will test your patch and report here.

Cheers
/tccm