Cedric, it acts as if the types and variables that were defined in the 2 input files (I named them file1.o and file2.o) were not declared anywhere. Namely, running: > ld output.o file3.o yeilds the same results as simply running: > ld file3.o Ian, if that option did not exist I would have recevied an error message on the command I issued, wouldn't I? Cedric Roux-4 wrote: > > On 02/22/2011 04:47 PM, horseloverFat wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot for your help, >> yet I already tried that, but simply running "ar" doesn't seem to >> generate >> the appropriate output for the >> final link stage. > > How does the link stage fails? what errors do you get? > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Help-with-gcc-partial-link-%28option--ar%29-tp30983560p30987337.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.