compilation error

[rokala]

when i tried gcc,, i got the following error :


/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


can somebody help me out,,, thanks in advance

[LSalab]

Hi!

We're going to need a bit more than that. What are you compiling? Can you post a little more of the error that you're getting?

As of right now, the only thing I can think of is to try an ldconfig (as root)

$ sudo ldconfig

[rokala]

i was trying to compile a C program. even when i tried to print "hi":
#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
printf("hi");
}
i got the error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

[LSalab]

Well then, the error

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

means that either you didn't call all the libraries you need with the -l flag:
e.g.

g++ -lMylibrary -o myprogram mycode.cpp

or you just don't have the proper library installed.

Check that you have all the basic libraries installed.

EDIT: I just saw that the library ld is trying to find is the C library, you should start from there.

[elija]

What distro are you using? Have you installed the libraries for it?

For Debian / Ubuntu and other Debian children you would run

sudo apt-get install build-essential

[rokala]

thnx guyz,, problem solved

[MikeTbob]

thnx guyz,, problem solved

Can you please tell us how you solved the problem? It may be helpful for others also.

[rokala]

gcc was already installed in my pc,, but dint know why i got the errors(maybe i dint had the required libraries). So i re-installed gcc with the required libraries using synaptic manager and after that programs were compiled successfully. i am using UBUNTU 2.9 UE. is it okay mike ?

[MikeTbob]

Yes, that's very good. Thank you.