Thread: Should I have to do -lc -lgcc -lc (-lc twice) when compiling?

I was having a problem where I was getting errors about missing symbols unless I arranged the order of my libraries like this while compiling:

gcc hello.c -o hello -static -lc -lgcc -lc

It appears that both libraries needed functions from each other. But, since order matters, I had to do this.

Does this make sense? Is this right?

yes, gcc has an option to force multipass but by default it is single pass. --start-group archives --end-group

Originally Posted by Codeplug

>> Does this make sense?
Here are some blurbs on single pass linkers:
DJGPP FAQ -- DJGPP uses a one-pass linker
https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/co...e/node319.html

Thanks. That pretty much answers my question!

Originally Posted by brewbuck

Why should you need to specify either of those libraries (-lc or -lgcc) at all?

I was cross compiling, and had to use -nostdlib to prevent linking to the build system's libc (had to point the linker to the target libc manually).