Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:25:02 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Niklas Odenteg cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: linking problems using gcc In-Reply-To: <001901c4d30a$613455d0$8000000a@katarinaII> Message-ID: References: <001901c4d30a$613455d0$8000000a AT katarinaII> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Niklas Odenteg wrote: > Hi! > > This may be a newbee Q, but I'll try anyway ;-) > > I trying to link a small C/C++ program and I got linking error on time(), > rand() and srand(). These should be part of libc right? So way are they > missing? Has cygwin some special libc implementation or something??? > > Confused programmer needs some help. Please post a small simple program that demonstrates the error, the exact command line you used to compile it, and the exact error you get from gcc. At a guess, you are missing some #includes, so the functions aren't declared as 'extern "C"', and are name-mangled, so the linker doesn't find them. > Tanks! :-O Where? > /Niklas HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/