Problem with ld on cygwin

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) lhall@rfk.com
Thu Sep 5 05:54:00 GMT 2002


At 05:49 AM 9/5/2002, LEE LIK CHUAN wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have download cgywin and installed on my computer.
>However when i try to build a program by the command:
>
>ld test.o
>
>i got the following msg:
>
>ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _mainCRTStartup;
>defaulting to 00401000
>test.o(.text+0xb):test.cpp: undefined reference to
>`__main'
>test.o(.text+0x13):test.cpp: undefined reference to
>`endl(ostream &)'
>test.o(.text+0x20):test.cpp: undefined reference to
>`cout'
>test.o(.text+0x25):test.cpp: undefined reference to
>`ostream::operator<<(char co
>nst *)'
>
>Can anyone help?


Actually, the email archives can help with a problem like
this.  It's asked incessantly so there are lots of reference
points! ;-)  

This is not a Cygwin issue.  It's a gcc issue.  You're compiling
C++ code with gcc.  Don't.  Use g++ instead.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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