Thread: ld.exe: cannot find -l-lstdc++

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    ld.exe: cannot find -l-lstdc++

    I am having a little problem with mingw and codeblocks. It is trying to link to the standard library in a silly way

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    Reading specs from C:/Bin/Mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/specs
    Configured with: ../gcc/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java --disable-win32-registry --disable-shared --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --without-x --enable-java-gc=boehm --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-interpreter --enable-hash-synchronization --enable-libstdcxx-debug
    Thread model: win32
    gcc version 3.4.2 (mingw-special)
     C:/Bin/Mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/collect2.exe -Bdynamic -o a.exe C:/Bin/Mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/../../../crt2.o C:/Bin/Mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/crtbegin.o -LC:\Bin\Stk\bin -LC:\Bin\Mingw\Lib -LC:/Bin/Mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2 -LC:/Bin/Mingw/bin/../lib/gcc -LC:/Bin/Mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/../../../../mingw32/lib -LC:/Bin/Mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/../../.. Debug\stdafx.o Debug\a.o -lstk -lkernel32 -l-lstdc++ -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt C:/Bin/Mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/crtend.o
    C:\Bin\Mingw\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -l-lstdc++
    There are no options in the project file that would lead to this sort of problem (I've looked at it with a text editor), and can't find anything that references this stdc++ library. Of course, there's just an extra -l somewhere, but I can't find where, whether it's my fault, etc.

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    I haven't fired up Code::Blocks proper in quite a while, so this is just speculation.

    To me it looks like it is concatenating an empty library with the next library; i.e. -l%missing_file% -lstdc++. Could there be some kind of "empty" library entry somewhere?
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    hmm... is a library with no name even possible?
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    Maybe an extra space character somewhere, which caused the IDE to output an extra -l, only to discover that there was no filename (buggy IDE?)

    The problem could be in the IDEs project file itself, and not visible via the user interface.
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