How to get GCC linker command?

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user143579 picture user143579 · Jul 23, 2009 · Viewed 22.7k times · Source

How can I get the command line GCC uses to invoke ld?

I have a problem for an AVR target where GCC apparently adds a linker option which I am trying to override, so I would like to look at the exact options GCC uses for ld.

Answer

Ville Laurikari picture Ville Laurikari · Jul 23, 2009

Use gcc -v to see what commands it runs. As in,

gcc -v -o hello hello.c

This will print a lot of output, including the linker command. The actual output depends on the platform, but the linking command should be near the end. Alternatively, use

gcc -### -o hello hello.c

This is like -v, but does not actually run any commands and quotes the options.

Another option is

gcc -dumpspecs

Look for the entry for link.

The above command line flags are listed in gcc --help and explained on the man page. Here's GCC documentation for the spec files.

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