Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <08da01bf06cc$6fd2bc40$656aadcf@qsicorp.com> Reply-To: "Michael K. Elwood" From: "Michael K. Elwood" To: "cygwin cygwin" References: Subject: Re: ld or gcc failing? Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:36:10 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 > I have the following problem: > > I compiled many C modules, and I'm using `ld' to build a '.a' library file > and it fails with the following error: > << > rm -f Dobj3.a > ld -r -o Dobj3.a do243d.o re247d.o in245d.o bo251d.o ch249d.o po253d.o etc. etc. ar is the correct tool for creating libraries (archives). ld won't do what you want here. Don't forget to run ranlib on your library when you are done creating it (if you want it to be indexed.) Hope this helps. Best regards, MKE -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com