Link error 53

[San Saeteurn]

I found the issue.  It was a bad path setting.  I don't know why ld  
would return such a strange undocumented error code because of it

Thanks,

-San Saeteurn

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On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:

> San Saeteurn <ssaeteurn1@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Using GCC 4.2.1 cross comiling on Windows to Linux.
>> I am getting a link error:
>>    "collect2: ld returned 53 exit status"
>> What does this error code mean?
>> I looked all over google and the only error codes I managed to find
>> was 1 and 12.  Nothing on 53.
>> Is there a place I can go to to view a listing of all the error codes
>> and their meaning?
>
> On a Unix host this would mean that the linker returned an exit status
> of 53--that is, it called "exit (53);".  The GNU linker doesn't do  
> that,
> though.  I'm not sure what the exit status means on Windows.
>
> Do you see any other error message from the linker?
>
> If you run gcc with -Wl,-debug, you will see exactly how collect2 runs
> ld.  You could then try that ld command yourself and see what happens.
>
> Ian