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ld: Simple Linker Script Example

Ian Lance Taylor ian@wasabisystems.com
Fri Nov 7 02:02:00 GMT 2003 
Barry Rountree <rountree@uga.edu> writes:

> I'm puzzling my way through the ld documentation and I think I'm in need of 
> the "hello, world!" of linker scripts -- the minimal linker script that will 
> link two C files together into an executable.

Well, what kind of executable?  One that runs on a simple embedded
system, or one that runs on GNU/Linux?  For GNU/Linux, is the
executable statically or dynamically linked?

If you want a dynamically linked executable to work on GNU/Linux, you
need a moderately complex linker script.  That's a lot of the
complexity in the default linker script.

The same applies to Solaris, or indeed to any ELF system using dynamic
linking.

Ian
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