I got a problem with link objective files on a Mac OS X. Tracing back the problem is, here is my C hello world program
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
printf("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}
//Compile with gcc (clang LLVM compiler on mac)
$ gcc -c hello.c
The output file is hello.o link with gcc and run the executable is
$ gcc hello.o -o hello
$ ./hello
Now, I have to use the mac linker program ld or Ld to link the the objective files instead of gcc. In this case, what arguments should I pass into the ld program in order to get the program run? A simple pass in the object file name, i.e.
$ ld hello.o
resulting in
ld: warning: -macosx_version_min not specified, assuming 10.6
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"_printf", referenced from:
_main in hello.o
"start", referenced from:
implicit entry/start for main executable
ld: symbol(s) not found for inferred architecture x86_64
So what other files that i need to include to link or architecture information that I need to specify? Thanks.
A shared object file holds code and data suitable to be linked in two contexts. First, the link-editor can process it with other relocatable and shared object files to create other object files. Second, the runtime linker combines it with a dynamic executable file and other shared objects to create a process image.
"libc" is just a generic name for any C standard library. "glibc" is one specific implementation of that library, whereas Apple uses their own implementation for OS X, which is part of the libSystem library.
Various compilers are available in Mac to compile C code. Mac C compilers compile C code into an executable. This executable can be run directly to run the C code. Clang and GCC(GNU Compiler Collection) are the common compilers that are used to compile C code.
For a reference, my complete linker options are
ld -demangle -dynamic -arch x86_64
-macosx_version_min 10.9.0
-o hello
-lSystem /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/../lib/clang/5.0/lib/darwin/libclang_rt.osx.a
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