Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/08/11/19:58:57
> From: Brian R. Gaeke [mailto:gaeke AT uiuc DOT edu]
>
> > > When I link two particular .o files together into a new
> relocatable
> > > (using ld -r) I get errors from ld, instead of a new .o file. This
> > > happens in many of our C++ projects, but only on Cygwin. I have
> > > reduced the test cases significantly.
> >
> > ld doesn't speak C++. Use g++ to link C++ modules.
>
> Thanks for the advice. I tried using g++ for the link step.
> Ordinarily
> that results in ld complaining that it can't find WinMain, which makes
> sense because I am trying to link two .o files which do not constitute
> an entire program.
>
> I tried passing the -r option to ld using g++'s -Wl,-r option, so that
> it would not expect to see WinMain; that resulted in an error
> very similar
> to the one that I got before when I simply used ld -r.
Are you using -Ur? If not, RTFM. If you are, I'm out of suggestions.
Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand
"Remember when we told you there was no future?
Well, this is it." -- Blank Reg
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