linking problems using gcc

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Niklas Odenteg wrote:

> Hi!
>
> This may be a newbee Q, but I'll try anyway ;-)
>
> I trying to link a small C/C++ program and I got linking error on time(),
> rand() and srand(). These should be part of libc right? So way are they
> missing? Has cygwin some special libc implementation or something???
>
> Confused programmer needs some help.

Please post a small simple program that demonstrates the error, the exact
command line you used to compile it, and the exact error you get from gcc.

At a guess, you are missing some #includes, so the functions aren't
declared as 'extern "C"', and are name-mangled, so the linker doesn't find
them.

> Tanks!

:-O  Where?

> /Niklas

HTH,
	Igor
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