Gcc collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

c gcc cross-compiling ubuntu-15.10
XXO2 picture XXO2 · Mar 13, 2016 · Viewed 21.5k times · Source

I'm going through the tutorial on making an OS on http://wiki.osdev.org/Bare_Bones. When I try to link boot.o and kernel.o using this command: i686-elf-gcc -T linker.ld -o myos.bin -ffreestanding -O2 -nostdlib boot.o kernel.o -lgcc , I just get this error:

collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'
compilation terminated.

I just installed fresh Ubuntu 15.10 that with gcc-5.2.1 and binutils-2.25.1 . I have searched the internet for answers but nothing helped.

Answer

Lord Boval picture Lord Boval · Oct 29, 2019

I also got once the same error during a pentest while I was trying to compile my exploit on the victim server.

In my case, the directory where the "ld" program was located had not been defined in the PATH environment variable, so I simply added it.

eg. export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin

Related questions

How to work with external libraries when cross compiling?

I am writing some code for raspberry pi ARM target on x86 ubuntu machine. I am using the gcc-linaro-armhf toolchain. I am able to cross compile and run some independent programs on pi. Now, I want to link my code …

Read More
Tool to analyze size of ELF sections and symbol

I need a way to analyze output file of my GCC compiler for ARM. I am compiling for bare metal and I am quite concerned with size. I can use arm-none-eabi-objdump provided by the cross-compiler but parsing the output is …

Read More
Undefined reference to printf when using GCC cross compiler

I'm trying to get the following simple 'Hello World' program to compile using a cross compiler (GCC 4.9.2) targeting mips: #include <stdio.h> int main() { int x = 5; printf("x = %d\n", x); } The x variable is there to stop …

Read More