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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 71

Where can I find the linker(ld) in Sun Solaris Studios 12.2?

At the moment I am using for linking purposes the pre-installed linker on my SPARC machine in the following directory:

/usr/ccs/bin/ld

I wanna compile my application with the Sun Studios Compiler 12.2 and so I would also like to use the linker that should come with this package. However, when checking the bin directory of Sun Studios I can just find a c compiler (cc), but no ld (linker). Anyone an idea where this has gone and how I can invoke it?

Many thanks, Mike

Upvotes: 1

Views: 908

Answers (2)

James McPherson
James McPherson

Reputation: 2556

By default (ie, unless you try very hard) Studio Compilers will use the version of the linker that is shipped with the operating system as a core (unremoveable) component.

It is not recommended at all to try to use the GNU linker on Solaris. There are lots of feature differences between the two.

If you want to delve more into the Solaris linker, read the doco at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E26507/index.html, or blogs from the team - https://blogs.oracle.com/rie and https://blogs.oracle.com/ali.

Upvotes: 2

user933161
user933161

Reputation: 

# ls -lh /usr/ccs/bin/ld 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2012-01-26 05:54 /usr/ccs/bin/ld -> ../../bin/ld

/usr/bin/ld is in pkg:/developer/linker

Upvotes: 0

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