Re: crt1.o

[roro <rossius@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>]

On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Joe Kirby wrote:

> What uses crt1.o? Several packages won't build because of errors such as:

crt1.o is from libc5-dev and used for virtual every ELF executable in the 
last linking stage.

> /usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
> /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x50): undefined reference to `main'

You have to provide the "main" function in your source code.  I think the
configuration process has somehow decided to do

gcc foo.c
gcc bar.c
gcc foo.o bar.o -o baz

instead of

gcc foo.c -c
gcc bar.c -c 
gcc foo.o bar.o -o baz

Could you show the lines before the error message above?

mfg
Rolf Rossius