# Experimental port to get binutils working natively on the QNX8 (x86_64 and aarch64) 

To build: 

$ source ~/qnx800/qnxsdp-env.sh 
$ mkdir ~/qnx800/SRC
$ cd ~/qnx800/SRC
$ git clone  https://github.com/qnx-ports/build-files 
$ cd build-files/ports 
$ wget https://astr0baby.online/QNX/8.0/build_files/ports/binutils.tgz 
$ tar -zxvf binutils.tgz 
$ rm binutils.tgz 
$ cd ~/qnx800/SRC 
$ wget https://astr0baby.online/QNX/8.0/SRC/binutils-2.45.tgz 
$ tar -zxvf binutils-2.45.tgz 
$ rm binutils-2.45.tgz 
$ QNX_PROJECT_ROOT="$(pwd)/binutils-2.45" make -C build-files/ports/binutils install 

Note: during the x86_64 build the build complains about the missing stamp directory in ldscripts 
      so I have just created it and re-ran the build process again
  
$ mkdir ~/qnx800/target/qnx/x86_64//data/usr/local/x86_64-\*-nto/lib/ldscripts/stamp 
$ QNX_PROJECT_ROOT="$(pwd)/binutils-2.45" make -C build-files/ports/binutils install

The binaries will then install to 

$ ~/qnx800/target/qnx/aarch64le/data 
$ ~/qnx800/target/qnx/x86_64/data 

Observations: 

There is no support yet for ld in current binutils-2.45 for QNX x86_64 
as there is a missing definition in the following files: 

ld/configure.tgt 
ld/emulparams  (no x86_64nto.sh) 
bfd/config.bfd 

I have patched the above to add support for QNX x86_64 but Im sure I dont have the correct x86_64nto.sh for valid emulparams 
to generate proper x86_64 QNX8 emulparams for the binary format.    
The ld linker therefore does not work on the x86_64 QNX8 , but compiles and runs. All other binutil tools run well. 

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5526 -rwxr-xr-x  4 qnxuser root 2829600 2025-08-11 00:02 ld