whats the cause for this error "./a.out: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture."

[Pradeep83]

Hi All,

Good Morning

Here I am jotdowning my problem

I am compiling a .c file in Free BSD 6.0 and exceuting there itself.
and i have taken that a.out file to properiarty routing operating system which is varaint of Free BSD , when i excute that a.out file there uisng the command ./a.out its displaying following error message..

" Exec format error. Wrong Architecture "

Can any body help me out how to overcome this problem.


Thanks
Pradeep

[mac11]

Hi All,

Good Morning

Here I am jotdowning my problem

I am compiling a .c file in Free BSD 6.0 and exceuting there itself.
and i have taken that a.out file to properiarty routing operating system which is varaint of Free BSD , when i excute that a.out file there uisng the command ./a.out its displaying following error message..

" Exec format error. Wrong Architecture "

Can any body help me out how to overcome this problem.


Thanks
Pradeep

That seems like a pretty clear message - something about your 2 systems is so different that programs compiled on one aren't able to run on the other. I can't know for sure the cause, but here are a couple of ideas:

- Maybe one of the machines is 64-bit and the other is 32-bit.
- Maybe you compiled with very hardware specific compiler optimization flags and the other machine can't support the optimized code.
- Perhaps the proprietary BSD variant OS just won't allow for the executable file format produced by free BSD.