I can't build static programs

Red Guy · 01-18-2003, 11:23 PM

I want to put a program into a CD and need build a program without shared libraries, I try with the command:

gcc -o myprogram myprogram.c -lncurses -static

but show the next message error

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

I try with another programs that uses another libraries and get the same error (with another libraries) but if compiles dinamically the program is succesfully

Should I link separately???

How can do it???

niknah · 01-18-2003, 11:32 PM

you need the libc.a file
it should be on most installations, trying installing glibc again.

Red Guy · 01-18-2003, 11:47 PM

How can build this (any .a) file???

niknah · 01-19-2003, 01:43 AM

you probably don't want to compile libc.a, you have to rebuild glibc which takes forever.

on my computer it came from the glibc-devel package

check that it's not at /lib or /usr/lib first, that's where it normally is.