From: ian AT parti DOT inforum DOT org (Ian)
Subject: ld: can't open -lgcc
12 Dec 1996 17:08:31 -0800
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Attempting to compile a hello world program under B17.1 (Win95 4.00.950)
gives a linker error "ld: cannot open -lgcc: No such file or directory". I
admit to being something of a newbie, but I can't even figure out why it's
_trying_ to find -lgcc. A quick grep of all of my header files for 'lgcc'
didn't produce anything, so why is it trying?

Compiling hiworld.c to a .o file and then attempting "ld hiworld.o" yields:

/d/ROOT/H-I386-C/BIN/LD.EXE: warning: cannot find entry symbol _mainCRTStartup;
defaulting to 00401000
hiworld.o(.text+0x14):hiworld.c: undefined reference to `__main'
hiworld.o(.text+0x1e):hiworld.c: undefined reference to `printf'

Ian Reinhart

p.s. but this is so much _closer_ to actually getting it to compile than I
was last week... :)

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