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Introduce post-linker that converts ELF to PE

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If you build a static ELF executable in `ld -q` mode (which leaves rela
sections inside the binary) then you can run it through the elf2pe.com
program afterwards, which will turn it into a PE executable. We have a
new trick for defining WIN32 DLL imports in C without any assembly code.
This also achieves the optimally tiny and perfect PE binary structure.

We need this because it isn't possible to have a GNU ld linker script
generate a PE file where the virtual pointer and the file pointer can
drift apart. This post-linker can do that. One cool benefit is we can
now use a smaller 512-byte alignment in the file, and an even bigger
64kb alignment for the segment virtual addresses, and the executable
ends up being smaller.

Another program introduced by this change is pecheck.com which can do
extensive linting of PE static executables to help explain why Windows
won't load it.
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Justine Tunney 2023-08-09 18:36:38 -07:00
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libc/nt/struct/imagefileheader.internal.h
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@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ struct NtImageFileHeader {
uint32_t NumberOfSymbols;
/*
* [File Size] The size of the optional header, which is required for
* [file size] The size of the optional header, which is required for
* executable files but not for object files. This value should be
* zero for an object file. For a description of the header format,
* see Optional Header (Image Only).