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Compiling problems: cannot find crt1.o

I have a virtual Debian system which I use to develop. Today I wanted to try llvm/clang. After installing …

gcc clang ld

I don't understand -Wl,-rpath -Wl,

For convenience I added the relevant manpages below. My (mis)understanding first: If I need to separate options with ,, that …

gcc ld rpath

LD_LIBRARY_PATH vs LIBRARY_PATH

I'm building a simple C++ program and I want to temporarily substitute a system supplied shared library with a more …

gcc g++ ld

How to print the ld(linker) search path

What is the way to print the search paths that in looked by ld in the order it searches.

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ld cannot find -l<library>

I am having trouble installing pyipopt on ubuntu 12.04. During linking, I receive the error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcoinhsl …

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What's the difference between .so, .la and .a library files?

I know an .so file is a kind of dynamic library (lots of threads can share such libraries so there …

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How to remove unused C/C++ symbols with GCC and ld?

I need to optimize the size of my executable severely (ARM development) and I noticed that in my current build …

c++ c gcc ld strip

Why do I have to define LD_LIBRARY_PATH with an export every time I run my application?

I have some code that uses some shared libraries (c code on gcc). When compiling I have to explicitly define …

c linux gcc shared-libraries ld

How to set the LDFLAGS in CMakeLists.txt?

I set the CFLAGS in CMake by CMAKE_C_FLAGS. Is something like this to set LDFLAGS?

gcc makefile cmake ld ldflags

"/usr/bin/ld: cannot find library"

This is my first time trying to compile FORTRAN code using a makefile. The OS is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit. I …

gcc linker fortran ld gfortran