Re: elks newbie.....kindly help!!

[Paul Nasrat <pauln@truemesh.com>]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 02:24:29PM +0530, Seemanta Dutta wrote:
> hello to all gurus....
> i am a student and am going to do a seminar on elks ...i have already
> downloaded dev86 and elks disk images and their src...

> the problem is however that of dev86..
> i wrote a 'hello world' program and compiled it in my redhat 7.2 box..the
> compilation was normal and without any errors...but when i try to run my
> a.out file with elksemu i get the following error message-
> 
>              bash: /usr/bin/elksemu: cannot execute binary file
> i have tried searching the net for documentation on this dev86 but there
> was none to be found.....even the man page for elksemu is not
> complete....

It is a bit obfuscated.

> i would be grateful to u if any one could provide me some pointers to
> dev86...and some info abt compliing and running programs using dev86 i.e.
> bcc and eklskemu...urls will be welcome too..

You need to have the modules binfmt_aout and binfmt_misc loaded in your kernel

Then

echo ':i86-elks:M::\x01\x03\x20\x00:\xff\xff\xff\x83:/lib/elksemu:' \
     > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

that'll get it working

Paul