# How to use elf2hex in Win 7 environment?

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How to use elf2hex in Win 7 environment?  
My development environment uses win7, eclipse and riscv32-unknown-elf-gcc.

I saw the following.  
We have support for converting ELF files into binary files (for embedded targets) and hex files (for verilog simulators). objdump can convert an ELF file to a binary file. elf2hex can convert an ELF file to a hex file. objdump is part of FSF binutils. elf2hex is found at

> **[sifive/elf2hex](https://github.com/sifive/elf2hex)**
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> Converts ELF files to HEX files that are suitable for Verilog's readmemh. - sifive/elf2hex

How do I use elf2hex in the Win7 eclipse environment?