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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:26:09 -0500
From: "Brian R. Gaeke" <gaeke AT uiuc DOT edu>
To: Ross Smith <rosss AT pharos DOT co DOT nz>
Cc: gaeke AT uiuc DOT edu, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: ld -r errors with C++ objects
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> > 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.

-- 
gaeke AT uiuc DOT edu

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