On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:19:39PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 07 September 2006 19:08, Arun Biyani wrote: >>Recently, I've run into this "cannot execute binary file" problem. I >>have not run this program for 3-4 months but before that it would run >>fine in Cygwin. It was compiled and linked for Cygwin even though >>"file" command says linux. > >>[rom$:553] m68k-elf-objcopy -O binary umon_rom.elf umon_rom.bin >>/bin/m68k-elf-objcopy: /bin/m68k-elf-objcopy: cannot execute binary file >>[rom$:554] file /bin/m68k-elf-objcopy >>/bin/m68k-elf-objcopy: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 >>(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for >>GNU/Linux 2.2.5, stripped > >No. No way on earth did it ever run that file. If the file command >says linux, then it IS linux. You must have overwritten your cygwin >version at some stage with a linux version.
I suspect that there is a m68k-elf-objcopy and a m68k-elf-objcopy.exe file there. The m68k-elf-objcopy (without the .exe extension) should be deleted. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/