Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 12:22:56 -0700
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: ld.exe problem
To: Matt Pierce <corganlover AT geocities DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, mpierce AT throne DOT isp DOT homestar DOT net
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Matt Pierce wrote:
> 
> Hey.  I'm having a problem when I try to link a program in RHIDE.  I've
> skimped the code down to just an empty main() function with no header
> files and no complications, but when I try to link it, the linker gives
> me the error 'ld.exe:  cannot open -lgcc:  File in wrong format.' I
> searched through my djgpp directory for any lgcc.* file, but there
> didn't seem to be any.  Anyone know what's going on?

what you're actually looking for is libgcc.a (-lfoo causes ld to look
for libfoo.a in the lib search path).

As to what's wrong, all I can think of (and I could easily be wrong) is
libgcc.a has been corrupted somehow. If this is the case, try
re-extracting it from the zip it came from (don't know if it's
djdev*.zip or gcc*.zip).

Bill
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