1<html lang="en"> 2<head> 3<title>nlmconv - GNU Binary Utilities</title> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> 5<meta name="description" content="GNU Binary Utilities"> 6<meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> 7<link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> 8<link rel="prev" href="addr2line.html#addr2line" title="addr2line"> 9<link rel="next" href="windres.html#windres" title="windres"> 10<link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> 11<!-- 12Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 132000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 14Free Software Foundation, Inc. 15 16Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document 17under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 18or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; 19with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no 20Back-Cover Texts. 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For instructions 72on writing the NLM command file language used in header files, see the 73‘<samp><span class="samp">linkers</span></samp>’ section, ‘<samp><span class="samp">NLMLINK</span></samp>’ in particular, of the <cite>NLM 74Development and Tools Overview</cite>, which is part of the NLM Software 75Developer's Kit (“NLM SDK”), available from Novell, Inc. 76<samp><span class="command">nlmconv</span></samp> uses the <span class="sc">gnu</span> Binary File Descriptor library to read 77<var>infile</var>; 78see <a href="../ld/BFD.html#BFD">BFD</a>, for more information. 79 80 <p><samp><span class="command">nlmconv</span></samp> can perform a link step. In other words, you can list 81more than one object file for input if you list them in the definitions 82file (rather than simply specifying one input file on the command line). 83In this case, <samp><span class="command">nlmconv</span></samp> calls the linker for you. 84 85<!-- man end --> 86<!-- man begin OPTIONS nlmconv --> 87 <dl> 88<dt><samp><span class="env">-I </span><var>bfdname</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--input-target=</span><var>bfdname</var></samp><dd>Object format of the input file. <samp><span class="command">nlmconv</span></samp> can usually determine 89the format of a given file (so no default is necessary). 90See <a href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection">Target Selection</a>, for more information. 91 92 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-O </span><var>bfdname</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--output-target=</span><var>bfdname</var></samp><dd>Object format of the output file. <samp><span class="command">nlmconv</span></samp> infers the output 93format based on the input format, e.g. for a ‘<samp><span class="samp">i386</span></samp>’ input file the 94output format is ‘<samp><span class="samp">nlm32-i386</span></samp>’. 95See <a href="Target-Selection.html#Target-Selection">Target Selection</a>, for more information. 96 97 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-T </span><var>headerfile</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--header-file=</span><var>headerfile</var></samp><dd>Reads <var>headerfile</var> for NLM header information. For instructions on 98writing the NLM command file language used in header files, see see the 99‘<samp><span class="samp">linkers</span></samp>’ section, of the <cite>NLM Development and Tools 100Overview</cite>, which is part of the NLM Software Developer's Kit, available 101from Novell, Inc. 102 103 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-d</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--debug</span></samp><dd>Displays (on standard error) the linker command line used by <samp><span class="command">nlmconv</span></samp>. 104 105 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-l </span><var>linker</var></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--linker=</span><var>linker</var></samp><dd>Use <var>linker</var> for any linking. <var>linker</var> can be an absolute or a 106relative pathname. 107 108 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-h</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--help</span></samp><dd>Prints a usage summary. 109 110 <br><dt><samp><span class="env">-V</span></samp><dt><samp><span class="env">--version</span></samp><dd>Prints the version number for <samp><span class="command">nlmconv</span></samp>. 111</dl> 112 113<!-- man end --> 114 </body></html> 115 116