Syslinux - May 2012 - The Com32 Binary

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?

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.

--
-Gene

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.

On 5/6/2012 11:31, Onan Farabi 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?
When you build a COMBOOT32 program (.c32), I believe the library is 
linked to it.  That is to say, I believe that all .c32 modules have the 
library linked to it.  If you are developing your own COMBOOT32 module, 
please mimic the 'make' process that the included COMBOOT32 modules use.

Please see syslinux/com32/lib/Makefile and look for libcom32.a.  Please 
review syslinux/com32/sysdump/ as an example of a COMBOOT32 module in 
its own directory, with its own Makefile.  Other examples are in 
syslinux/com32/samples/

Alternatively, you could describe the problem you are actually trying to 
solve, which leads you to think that you "need the Com32 binary so"
you
"can use it on" your "project".

- Shao Miller