Getting Started with gcc

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 21, 2001, John Kennedy <johnkennedy@allentek.com> wrote:

> I though ld would come with the package.

Nope.  gcc is a compiler collection.  The assembler and the linker are
part of GNU binutils, a separate project.

>     gcc -c myprog.c
>     ld myprog.o

> It gives my the familiar error that it can't find printf.

You should get the C library linked in, with -lc.  But you should
really get gcc to find ld, because then it will not only do this for
you, but will also link in its own support libraries and object files,
without which you may run into further problems.

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