Generating executables

Anonymous · 16-06-2004, 05:27 PM

Okey, lets say I want to create an executable with delphi.
How exactly do you do this? Do you write the exe header and the machine code to a binary file or what? I know this is probably insane, but I was just wondering how you could do something like this.

**Mrwb** · 16-06-2004, 05:29 PM

Damn! forgot to log in..

ops: Diddn't know you could post as guest.
btw: someone ought to fix the cookie issue.. The login information isn't stored here...

**Paulius** · 16-06-2004, 07:08 PM

well yes, but what's the point?

**Useless Hacker** · 16-06-2004, 10:06 PM

Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification

Anonymous · 16-06-2004, 10:56 PM

Useless hacker: Thanks for the link

Paulius: I'm just curiouse.

**WILL** · 18-06-2004, 02:20 AM

Originally Posted by Paulius

well yes, but what's the point?

How do you think compilers are made?

Mrwb: Good luck with your experiment, don't forget to try the same with Linux aswell.

**cairnswm** · 18-06-2004, 04:55 AM

The shortcut link DGDev.tk doesn;t seem to store the cookies right but the

http://terraqueous.f2o.org/dgdev

seems to store the cookies fine

**Mrwb** · 18-06-2004, 10:01 AM

cairnswm: I see. Finally I won't have to log in manualy *lazy*.

**Lightning** · 01-12-2004, 01:28 PM

FPC(FreePascal) uses the GNU tools, look at FPC's code and you'll see how it does it, it compiles the .o .a .ppu files and uses the GNU linker(crossplatform) to make executables and/or .dll/.so.

**WILL** · 02-12-2004, 01:33 AM

Here is a very popular tutorial on writting a compiler by Jack Crenshaw PhD using Turbo Pascal 4.0.

TP4 you say?!?! Yup!

This set of tutorials started in 1988 and was added to up until 1995 when it was seemingly abandoned, yet never finished. It contains about 16 chapters of how you would go about the various issues of developing a compiler.

Here is the link: Let's Build a Compiler