diff --git a/reactos/tools/Makefile b/reactos/tools/Makefile
index 1ccc88dc8d2..5602a9c5f10 100644
--- a/reactos/tools/Makefile
+++ b/reactos/tools/Makefile
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ TOOLS = \
 	rsym$(EXE_POSTFIX) \
 	rtouch$(EXE_POSTFIX) \
 	mkflpimg$(EXE_POSTFIX) \
+	ppc-le2be$(EXE_POSTFIX) \
+	hack-coff$(EXE_POSTFIX) \
 	depends$(EXE_POSTFIX)
 
 LIBS = lib_unicode lib_wpp
@@ -96,6 +98,24 @@ mkflpimg$(EXE_POSTFIX): mkflpimg.c
 	@$(HOST_CC) $(CFLAGS) -DDOS_PATHS mkflpimg.c -o mkflpimg$(EXE_POSTFIX)
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(HOST),mingw32-linux)
+hack-coff$(EXE_POSTFIX): hack-coff.c
+	@$(HOST_CC) $(CFLAGS) hack-coff.c -o hack-coff$(EXE_POSTFIX)
+endif
+ifeq ($(HOST),mingw32-windows)
+hack-coff$(EXE_POSTFIX): hack-coff.c
+	@$(HOST_CC) $(CFLAGS) hack-coff.c -o hack-coff$(EXE_POSTFIX)
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(HOST),mingw32-linux)
+ppc-le2be$(EXE_POSTFIX): ppc-le2be.c
+	@$(HOST_CC) $(CFLAGS) ppc-le2be.c -o ppc-le2be$(EXE_POSTFIX)
+endif
+ifeq ($(HOST),mingw32-windows)
+ppc-le2be$(EXE_POSTFIX): ppc-le2be.c
+	@$(HOST_CC) $(CFLAGS) ppc-le2be.c -o ppc-le2be$(EXE_POSTFIX)
+endif
+
 depends$(EXE_POSTFIX): depends.c
 	@$(HOST_CC) $(CFLAGS) depends.c -o depends$(EXE_POSTFIX)
 
diff --git a/reactos/tools/hack-coff.c b/reactos/tools/hack-coff.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3617a94de0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reactos/tools/hack-coff.c
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+/*
+ * hack-coff.c - hack the header of an xcoff file to fill in
+ * a few fields needed by the Open Firmware xcoff loader on
+ * Power Macs but not initialized by objcopy.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) Paul Mackerras 1997.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include "rs6000.h"
+
+#define AOUT_MAGIC	0x010b
+
+#define get_16be(x)	((((unsigned char *)(x))[0] << 8) \
+			 + ((unsigned char *)(x))[1])
+#define put_16be(x, v)	(((unsigned char *)(x))[0] = (v) >> 8, \
+			 ((unsigned char *)(x))[1] = (v) & 0xff)
+#define get_32be(x)	((((unsigned char *)(x))[0] << 24) \
+			 + (((unsigned char *)(x))[1] << 16) \
+			 + (((unsigned char *)(x))[2] << 8) \
+			 + ((unsigned char *)(x))[3])
+
+int main(int ac, char **av)
+{
+    int fd;
+    int i, nsect;
+    int aoutsz;
+    struct external_filehdr fhdr;
+    AOUTHDR aout;
+    struct external_scnhdr shdr;
+
+    if (ac != 2) {
+	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: hack-coff coff-file\n");
+	exit(1);
+    }
+    if ((fd = open(av[1], 2)) == -1) {
+	perror(av[2]);
+	exit(1);
+    }
+    if (read(fd, &fhdr, sizeof(fhdr)) != sizeof(fhdr))
+	goto readerr;
+    i = get_16be(fhdr.f_magic);
+    if (i != U802TOCMAGIC && i != U802WRMAGIC && i != U802ROMAGIC) {
+	fprintf(stderr, "%s: not an xcoff file\n", av[1]);
+	exit(1);
+    }
+    aoutsz = get_16be(fhdr.f_opthdr);
+    if (read(fd, &aout, aoutsz) != aoutsz)
+	goto readerr;
+    nsect = get_16be(fhdr.f_nscns);
+    for (i = 0; i < nsect; ++i) {
+	if (read(fd, &shdr, sizeof(shdr)) != sizeof(shdr))
+	    goto readerr;
+	if (strcmp(shdr.s_name, ".text") == 0) {
+	    put_16be(aout.o_snentry, i+1);
+	    put_16be(aout.o_sntext, i+1);
+	} else if (strcmp(shdr.s_name, ".data") == 0) {
+	    put_16be(aout.o_sndata, i+1);
+	} else if (strcmp(shdr.s_name, ".bss") == 0) {
+	    put_16be(aout.o_snbss, i+1);
+	}
+    }
+    put_16be(aout.magic, AOUT_MAGIC);
+    if (lseek(fd, (long) sizeof(struct external_filehdr), 0) == -1
+	|| write(fd, &aout, aoutsz) != aoutsz) {
+	fprintf(stderr, "%s: write error\n", av[1]);
+	exit(1);
+    }
+    close(fd);
+    exit(0);
+
+readerr:
+    fprintf(stderr, "%s: read error or file too short\n", av[1]);
+    exit(1);
+}
diff --git a/reactos/tools/ppc-le2be.c b/reactos/tools/ppc-le2be.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3db03a441ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reactos/tools/ppc-le2be.c
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main( int argc, char **argv ) {
+    char buf[8];
+    int rlen, i;
+    FILE *fin = NULL, *fout = NULL;
+
+    if( argc < 3 ) return 1;
+
+    fin = fopen( argv[1], "rb" );
+
+    if( fin ) 
+        fout = fopen( argv[2], "wb" );
+    if( !fout ) return 1;
+
+    do { 
+        rlen = fread( buf, 1, 8, fin );
+        for( i = 7; rlen > 0 && i >= 0; i-- ) fputc( buf[i], fout );
+    }
+    while( rlen == 8 );
+
+    fclose( fout );
+
+    return 0;
+}
diff --git a/reactos/tools/rs6000.h b/reactos/tools/rs6000.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..433f45084e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reactos/tools/rs6000.h
@@ -0,0 +1,243 @@
+/* IBM RS/6000 "XCOFF" file definitions for BFD.
+   Copyright (C) 1990, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   FIXME: Can someone provide a transliteration of this name into ASCII?
+   Using the following chars caused a compiler warning on HIUX (so I replaced
+   them with octal escapes), and isn't useful without an understanding of what
+   character set it is.
+   Written by Mimi Ph\373\364ng-Th\345o V\365 of IBM
+   and John Gilmore of Cygnus Support.  */
+
+/********************** FILE HEADER **********************/
+
+struct external_filehdr {
+	char f_magic[2];	/* magic number			*/
+	char f_nscns[2];	/* number of sections		*/
+	char f_timdat[4];	/* time & date stamp		*/
+	char f_symptr[4];	/* file pointer to symtab	*/
+	char f_nsyms[4];	/* number of symtab entries	*/
+	char f_opthdr[2];	/* sizeof(optional hdr)		*/
+	char f_flags[2];	/* flags			*/
+};
+
+        /* IBM RS/6000 */
+#define U802WRMAGIC     0730    /* writeable text segments **chh**      */
+#define U802ROMAGIC     0735    /* readonly sharable text segments      */
+#define U802TOCMAGIC    0737    /* readonly text segments and TOC       */
+
+#define BADMAG(x)	\
+	((x).f_magic != U802ROMAGIC && (x).f_magic != U802WRMAGIC && \
+	 (x).f_magic != U802TOCMAGIC)
+
+#define	FILHDR	struct external_filehdr
+#define	FILHSZ	20
+
+
+/********************** AOUT "OPTIONAL HEADER" **********************/
+
+
+typedef struct
+{
+  unsigned char	magic[2];	/* type of file			*/
+  unsigned char	vstamp[2];	/* version stamp		*/
+  unsigned char	tsize[4];	/* text size in bytes, padded to FW bdry */
+  unsigned char	dsize[4];	/* initialized data "  "	*/
+  unsigned char	bsize[4];	/* uninitialized data "   "	*/
+  unsigned char	entry[4];	/* entry pt.			*/
+  unsigned char	text_start[4];	/* base of text used for this file */
+  unsigned char	data_start[4];	/* base of data used for this file */
+  unsigned char	o_toc[4];	/* address of TOC */
+  unsigned char	o_snentry[2];	/* section number of entry point */
+  unsigned char	o_sntext[2];	/* section number of .text section */
+  unsigned char	o_sndata[2];	/* section number of .data section */
+  unsigned char	o_sntoc[2];	/* section number of TOC */
+  unsigned char	o_snloader[2];	/* section number of .loader section */
+  unsigned char	o_snbss[2];	/* section number of .bss section */
+  unsigned char	o_algntext[2];	/* .text alignment */
+  unsigned char	o_algndata[2];	/* .data alignment */
+  unsigned char	o_modtype[2];	/* module type (??) */
+  unsigned char o_cputype[2];	/* cpu type */
+  unsigned char	o_maxstack[4];	/* max stack size (??) */
+  unsigned char o_maxdata[4];	/* max data size (??) */
+  unsigned char	o_resv2[12];	/* reserved */
+}
+AOUTHDR;
+
+#define AOUTSZ 72
+#define SMALL_AOUTSZ (28)
+#define AOUTHDRSZ 72
+
+#define	RS6K_AOUTHDR_OMAGIC	0x0107	/* old: text & data writeable */
+#define	RS6K_AOUTHDR_NMAGIC	0x0108	/* new: text r/o, data r/w */
+#define	RS6K_AOUTHDR_ZMAGIC	0x010B	/* paged: text r/o, both page-aligned */
+
+
+/********************** SECTION HEADER **********************/
+
+
+struct external_scnhdr {
+	char		s_name[8];	/* section name			*/
+	char		s_paddr[4];	/* physical address, aliased s_nlib */
+	char		s_vaddr[4];	/* virtual address		*/
+	char		s_size[4];	/* section size			*/
+	char		s_scnptr[4];	/* file ptr to raw data for section */
+	char		s_relptr[4];	/* file ptr to relocation	*/
+	char		s_lnnoptr[4];	/* file ptr to line numbers	*/
+	char		s_nreloc[2];	/* number of relocation entries	*/
+	char		s_nlnno[2];	/* number of line number entries*/
+	char		s_flags[4];	/* flags			*/
+};
+
+/*
+ * names of "special" sections
+ */
+#define _TEXT	".text"
+#define _DATA	".data"
+#define _BSS	".bss"
+#define _PAD	".pad"
+#define _LOADER	".loader"
+
+#define	SCNHDR	struct external_scnhdr
+#define	SCNHSZ	40
+
+/* XCOFF uses a special .loader section with type STYP_LOADER.  */
+#define STYP_LOADER 0x1000
+
+/* XCOFF uses a special .debug section with type STYP_DEBUG.  */
+#define STYP_DEBUG 0x2000
+
+/* XCOFF handles line number or relocation overflow by creating
+   another section header with STYP_OVRFLO set.  */
+#define STYP_OVRFLO 0x8000
+
+/********************** LINE NUMBERS **********************/
+
+/* 1 line number entry for every "breakpointable" source line in a section.
+ * Line numbers are grouped on a per function basis; first entry in a function
+ * grouping will have l_lnno = 0 and in place of physical address will be the
+ * symbol table index of the function name.
+ */
+struct external_lineno {
+	union {
+		char l_symndx[4];	/* function name symbol index, iff l_lnno == 0*/
+		char l_paddr[4];	/* (physical) address of line number	*/
+	} l_addr;
+	char l_lnno[2];	/* line number		*/
+};
+
+
+#define	LINENO	struct external_lineno
+#define	LINESZ	6
+
+
+/********************** SYMBOLS **********************/
+
+#define E_SYMNMLEN	8	/* # characters in a symbol name	*/
+#define E_FILNMLEN	14	/* # characters in a file name		*/
+#define E_DIMNUM	4	/* # array dimensions in auxiliary entry */
+
+struct external_syment
+{
+  union {
+    char e_name[E_SYMNMLEN];
+    struct {
+      char e_zeroes[4];
+      char e_offset[4];
+    } e;
+  } e;
+  char e_value[4];
+  char e_scnum[2];
+  char e_type[2];
+  char e_sclass[1];
+  char e_numaux[1];
+};
+
+
+
+#define N_BTMASK	(017)
+#define N_TMASK		(060)
+#define N_BTSHFT	(4)
+#define N_TSHIFT	(2)
+
+
+union external_auxent {
+	struct {
+		char x_tagndx[4];	/* str, un, or enum tag indx */
+		union {
+			struct {
+			    char  x_lnno[2]; /* declaration line number */
+			    char  x_size[2]; /* str/union/array size */
+			} x_lnsz;
+			char x_fsize[4];	/* size of function */
+		} x_misc;
+		union {
+			struct {		/* if ISFCN, tag, or .bb */
+			    char x_lnnoptr[4];	/* ptr to fcn line # */
+			    char x_endndx[4];	/* entry ndx past block end */
+			} x_fcn;
+			struct {		/* if ISARY, up to 4 dimen. */
+			    char x_dimen[E_DIMNUM][2];
+			} x_ary;
+		} x_fcnary;
+		char x_tvndx[2];		/* tv index */
+	} x_sym;
+
+	union {
+		char x_fname[E_FILNMLEN];
+		struct {
+			char x_zeroes[4];
+			char x_offset[4];
+		} x_n;
+	} x_file;
+
+	struct {
+		char x_scnlen[4];			/* section length */
+		char x_nreloc[2];	/* # relocation entries */
+		char x_nlinno[2];	/* # line numbers */
+	} x_scn;
+
+        struct {
+		char x_tvfill[4];	/* tv fill value */
+		char x_tvlen[2];	/* length of .tv */
+		char x_tvran[2][2];	/* tv range */
+	} x_tv;		/* info about .tv section (in auxent of symbol .tv)) */
+
+	struct {
+		unsigned char x_scnlen[4];
+		unsigned char x_parmhash[4];
+		unsigned char x_snhash[2];
+		unsigned char x_smtyp[1];
+		unsigned char x_smclas[1];
+		unsigned char x_stab[4];
+		unsigned char x_snstab[2];
+	} x_csect;
+
+};
+
+#define	SYMENT	struct external_syment
+#define	SYMESZ	18
+#define	AUXENT	union external_auxent
+#define	AUXESZ	18
+#define DBXMASK 0x80		/* for dbx storage mask */
+#define SYMNAME_IN_DEBUG(symptr) ((symptr)->n_sclass & DBXMASK)
+
+
+
+/********************** RELOCATION DIRECTIVES **********************/
+
+
+struct external_reloc {
+  char r_vaddr[4];
+  char r_symndx[4];
+  char r_size[1];
+  char r_type[1];
+};
+
+
+#define RELOC struct external_reloc
+#define RELSZ 10
+
+#define DEFAULT_DATA_SECTION_ALIGNMENT 4
+#define DEFAULT_BSS_SECTION_ALIGNMENT 4
+#define DEFAULT_TEXT_SECTION_ALIGNMENT 4
+/* For new sections we havn't heard of before */
+#define DEFAULT_SECTION_ALIGNMENT 4