From: Nick AT fys DOT ruu DOT nl (Nick van Eijndhoven)
Subject: g++ option -nostartfiles doesn't work.
21 Feb 1997 09:39:10 -0800
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Dear GNU developers,
I want to use g++ to perform the ld step of my *.o files to create
a DLL. The original source files were C++ programs.
Obviously in this effort I want to prevent the linking in of crt0.o
and as such I specify

g++ -nostartfiles -o q.dll *.o

However, it seems that crt0.o is still linked in since I get an unresolved
reference to main() from libmain.a.
Do I understand something wrong here, or is the option -nostartfiles
not working ?

I also tried 

ld -o q.dll *.o -L'the proper directory' -lg++

but in this case the standard I/O facilities 'cout' and co. were not found.
Please help me out, since this is rather urgent.

                                                  Thanks in advance,
                                                        Nick.
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