gccNewbie writes: > > After spending years working in Java, I've decided I'd like to do a little C > programming. I've gotten gcc, which I think is the first step. In fact, I'm > using an old version, 3.2.3 for MinGW. I've done "Hello world" just to be > sure gcc is working. Now I'm trying to get gcc to link. > > I've studed all the options, all the ways to invoke gcc, and I can find > nothing helpful. I've got a library in a file starting with 'lib' and ending > with '.a'. I've downloaded this file from the web, I've downloaded the > source and used the makefile to compile the library. It seems that no matter > what I do I cannot get gcc to treat this file as a library containing the > stuff that I am absolutely sure it is supposed to contain. > > I know gcc is finding the file. If I go "gcc -lblah" and it cannot find > libblah.a, it will give me an error that tells me the library wasn't found. > So the library file is found. I see nothing in the documentation that > suggests I should need to do anything more than "gcc -lmylib test.c" to > compile 'test.c' with the functions defined in mylib. I have the library, I > tell gcc to use the library, and yet it acts as though these library > functions are undefined, giving 'undefined reference to' messages. > > I've looked at all the documentation I can think to study without finding > any possible solution. Is there any way to get gcc to tell me exactly what > is really in the library file? Yes. The command is called "nm". Andrew.
