[syslinux] The Com32 Binary

[Gene Cumm]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Onan Farabi <farabionan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, Im sorry for causing the confusion.
> I need the com32 lib as a single binary file, so I can use it. I tried to
> compile the lib, but I failed. I dont know what compiler should I use. Maybe
> anyone can suggest a SDK for this?

That has me even more confused.  What purpose?

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Onan Farabi <farabionan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, SOrry for causing a confusion.
> I need the com32 lib as a single binary file so I can use it. I tried to
> compile it with GCC but I failed. I dont know how to setup the environtment.
> Maybe you can suggest me an article to do that?

Did you install all of the prerequisites (documented in a text file in
the tree and binary/source archive) and run make from the top first
and incorporate your new COM32 into the Makefiles?  There is a single
binary that's built but my understanding is that it's equivalent to
you asking for all of glibc to be built in 1 immense binary for Linux
on i386 (yes, kernel and CPU specific).

To my knowledge, that binary and COM32s will be useless outside of a
Syslinux environment of any variant.

> ________________________________
> From: Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
> To: Onan Farabi <farabionan at yahoo.com>; For discussion of Syslinux and
> tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 1:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] The Com32 Binary
>
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Onan Farabi <farabionan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I need the Com32 binary so I can use it on my project. Or, maybe anyone
>> can make the COM32 library as a single API file so I can easly call it after
>> my .c32 is running?
>
> I'm confused by what you're asking.  Are you looking to enumerate all
> libcom32 and libutil calls or just build a COM32 to perform some
> action?  If you build your .c32 from a proper directory in the
> Syslinux tree, you should be able to build it.