ld: cannot perform PE operations on non PE output file 'bootsect'.

[Salvatore D'Angelo]

Hi all,

I have a problem compiling the bootsect.S file above using the Makefile. 
Basically the project create a boot sector on floppy that print "Hello 
World" at compuer boot.
On Linux it works fine but in cygwin I go the following link problem:
*ld: cannot perform PE operations on non PE output file 'bootsect'.

*In the cygwin mail archive I saw question like this without response 
please can someone suggest me what is wrong in my Makefile and what I 
have to change?
To build the project do the following steps:

1. download the two file in a directory <dir>
2. in cygwin move to this directory
3. type make

In linux the final file bootsect should have a size of 512 bytes. Using 
the command

make disk

you can copy it on a floppy making it bootable.

PS
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Thanks in advance for your help.
AS=as
LD=ld

all: bootsect

bootsect: bootsect.o
        @echo "[LD] $@"
        @$(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -o $@ $<

bootsect.o: bootsect.S
        @echo "[AS] $@"
        @$(AS) -o $@ $<

disk: image
        @echo "[DISK]"
        @dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 bs=512

image: bootsect
        @echo "[KERNEL IMAGE]"
        @cat bootsect > image

clean:
        @echo [CLEAN]
        @rm -rf *.o image bootsect
.code16
.text

.global _start

_start:
    movb $0xE, %ah              # Function 0x0E of Interrupt 0x10
    movb $'H', %al              # write 'H'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'e', %al              # write 'e'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'l', %al              # write 'l'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'l', %al              # write 'l'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'o', %al              # write 'o'
    int  $0x10
    movb $' ', %al              # write ' '
    int  $0x10
    movb $'W', %al              # write 'W'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'o', %al              # write 'o'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'r', %al              # write 'r'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'l', %al              # write 'l'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'d', %al              # write 'd'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'!', %al              # write '!'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'!', %al              # write '!'
    int  $0x10
    movb $'!', %al              # write '!'
    int  $0x10
    ret

.org 510# Last 2 bytes of the boot sector.

boot_flag:              .word 0xAA55    # Flag indicating a boot disk

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