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ejjyrex
ejjyrex

Reputation: 1157

Compiling error in Gcc

I wrote a program in C.After I compiled it using 

gcc -o pr prc.c

and I got the thing below

/usr/bin/ld:cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Upvotes: 0

Views: 719

Answers (2)

Levon
Levon

Reputation: 143017

The linker (ld) can't find library file libc.{a|so}, the standard C library. See the ld man page for mention of this library (and lc command line option to ld) under section OPTIONS. Quoting:

ld -o <output> /lib/crt0.o hello.o -lc

This tells ld to produce a file called output as the result of linking
the file "/lib/crt0.o" with "hello.o" and the library "libc.a"

You should check to make sure these files are actually missing from your system. On my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS system:

 ~  [88] locate libc.so
/lib/libc.so.6
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
/usr/lib/libc.so

~  [89] locate libc.a
/usr/lib/libc.a
/usr/lib/xen/libc.a

How you install this missing library will vary based on your distribution. Use your package manage to search for libc. Otherwise, you may want to consider re-installing gcc

Upvotes: 3

Abhijit
Abhijit

Reputation: 63707

-lc is an abbreviation of libc which is the C run-time library. What ever your *nix distribution is, you need to install glibc and glibc-common through an appropriate installer.

man ld and that should give an insight on the error message. Messages like these indicates that the linker is looking for a missing library. The Name of the library here is libc (replace l with lib).

Upvotes: 3

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