ld -r errors with C++ objects

Mon Aug 11 21:08:00 GMT 2003

> > When I link two particular .o files together into a new relocatable
> > (using ld -r) I get errors from ld, instead of a new .o file. This
> > happens in many of our C++ projects, but only on Cygwin. I have
> > reduced the test cases significantly.
>> ld doesn't speak C++. Use g++ to link C++ modules.

Thanks for the advice. I tried using g++ for the link step. Ordinarily
that results in ld complaining that it can't find WinMain, which makes
sense because I am trying to link two .o files which do not constitute
an entire program.
I tried passing the -r option to ld using g++'s -Wl,-r option, so that
it would not expect to see WinMain; that resulted in an error very similar
to the one that I got before when I simply used ld -r.
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gaeke@uiuc.edu
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