Hello all, I am porting a system from irix 6 to red-hat, I am trying to generate an archive library of gcc generated objects (those were generated using gcc -c). This library is then to be used by a different module using it, this module contains the main entry point for the start of execution. I am trying to use the option -ar, as was originally used on the irix machine. >From my reading (for example: http://www.mihaiu.name/2002/library_development_linux/) I understand that this should generate "partial link". As I mentioned, I am running on red-hat, using gcc version 3.4.6, and am trying the following command: > gcc -ar -o outcome.a file1.o file2.o To my surprise, the outcome of this is : "undefined reference to main". Well, those files really do not contain a "main" function since that function is on another module and is to be linked later with this library (outcome.a) - I would have expected the -ar parameter to supress the need for such main function, since it is a "partial link", and doen't create an executable. Later on, I tried removing the -ar parameter and the outcome remains the same. Does anyone know what i'm doing wrong here? Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Help-with-gcc-partial-link-%28option--ar%29-tp30983560p30983560.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
