Re: Standalone Application in GRUB

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 03.06.2012 21:00, Parul Aggarwal wrote:

> Hi Vladimir,
>  
> I understand what you are saying and grub modules seems the right way to
> go.
>  
> Other two apparoaches I can think of is:
>  
> 1. Make our standalone appliaction totally independent of GRUB like
> memtest application. This way we can go with independent application
> .bin running.

You can always do this but you can't use GRUB functions this way.

>  
> 2. If we statically link the grub libraries to our standalone
> application. We tried hello world program using grub_printf, and linked
> few grup static libraries. When we run the program the application got
> hanged.  Seems its because of few undefined symbols used in
> grub_printf(). Now we are trying to link glibc (as grub_printf uses this
> library interally) static library which should resolve the hang issue.
>  

Not going to work. GRUB is not intended to be statically linked in this
sense. GRUB doesn't use any glibc on runtime.

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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