What default libraries does -nolibc remove? - gcc

I am working on a project which eventually requires me to link my code against my customized version of libc, libstdc++ and libgcc. Now I am learning what libraries are linked by default.
I tried to compile my project code with -nolibc and manually provide the needed libraries in the argument list.
g++ -fuse-ld=gold -O2 -o main -static -nolibc main.cpp -lgcc -lm -lc
I got the following error, showing that I missed some libraries.
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/libgcc_eh.a(unwind-dw2-fde-dip.o):function _Unwind_Find_FDE: error: undefined reference to 'dl_iterate_phdr'
Which library is missing here?

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Compiler option -lm is required when compiling and linking program containing functions in math.h on Linux GCC, otherwise a link error will appear. However, -lm option is not required in MinGW GCC on Windows.
The -lm option in't required with MinGW(-w64) because the math functions are already part of MinGW(-w64).

Compiling OpenMP to WebAssembly

I am trying to compile a multi threaded application to WebAssembly. The application uses OpenMP for multithreading.
To compile I am using the Emscripten framework.
I have already downloaded the source files for OpenMP and compiled it for my host machine using make. With the following command I can get it to link with a simple demo application on my machine:
g++ -Wall -Werror -pedantic main.o -o main.x /$PATH_TO_OPENMP/build/runtime/src/libgomp.a -pthread -lstdc++ -Wl,--no-as-needed -ldl
I then tried to compile OpenMP to the llvm bytecode format used by Emscripten. To do so I tried to run 'emmake make', so that the emscripten framework executes the OpenMP makefiles with a suitable compiler. As emscripten does not like shared object files I compiled it to static library .a files.
This works and actually gives me object files to which I can link.
I then wanted to link my demo application with the following command
em++ -Wall -Werror -pedantic main.o -o main.html /home/main/data/Programming/openMP/openmp_web/build/runtime/src/libgomp.a -pthread -lstdc++ -Wl,--no-as-needed -ldl
But I get these warnings, that it couldn't link to OpenMP files:
shared:WARNING: object /tmp/emscripten_temp_ONa0eU_archive_contents/kmp_atomic.cpp.o is not a valid object file for emscripten, cannot link
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shared:WARNING: object /tmp/emscripten_temp_ONa0eU_archive_contents/kmp_str.cpp.o is not a valid object file for emscripten, cannot link
shared:WARNING: object /tmp/emscripten_temp_ONa0eU_archive_contents
So I figured I must have compiled OpenMP with the wrong compiler. I then tried to change the compiler when building the library by using the following commands:
cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=emcc -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=em++ -DLIBOMP_LIB_TYPE=normal -DLIBOMP_ENABLE_SHARED=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLIBOMP_ARCH=x86_64 OPENMP_STANDALONE_BUILD=1 ..
emmake make
But this just gives strange errors on some missing system variables
/home/main/data/Programming/openMP/openmp_web/runtime/src/kmp_platform.h:82:2: error: Unknown OS
/home/main/data/Programming/openMP/openmp_web/runtime/src/kmp_platform.h:203:2: error: Unknown or unsupported architecture
In file included from /home/main/data/Programming/openMP/openmp_web/runtime/src/kmp_alloc.cpp:13:
In file included from /home/main/data/Programming/openMP/openmp_web/runtime/src/kmp.h:77:
/home/main/data/Programming/openMP/openmp_web/runtime/src/kmp_os.h:171:2: error: "Can't determine size_t printf format specifier."
Does anyone have an idea on what I could do differently?

How do I link libraries statically with gcc?

I am new to C++ compiling/linking.
I am trying to link all libraries statically with gcc, I tried using LDFLAGS=-static but did not work. Error message showed:
/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link /home/dizhang/lib/hdf5/bin/h5c++ -g -O2 -L/home/dizhang/lib/blitz/lib -L/home/dizhang/lib/libconfig/lib -o angora src/libangora.la -lblitz -lconfig++
libtool: link: /home/dizhang/lib/hdf5/bin/h5c++ -g -O2 -o angora -L/home/dizhang/lib/blitz/lib -L/home/dizhang/lib/libconfig/lib src/.libs/libangora.a -L/bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/comm/lib64 -L/bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/comm/lib -L/bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/spi/lib -lpthread -lm /home/dizhang/lib/blitz/lib/libblitz.a /bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/comm/lib/libmpichcxx-gcc.so /bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R2M2_base/gnu-linux/powerpc64-bgq-linux/lib/libstdc++.so /bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/comm/lib/libmpich-gcc.so /bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/comm/lib/libopa-gcc.so /bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/comm/lib/libmpl-gcc.so /home/dizhang/lib/libconfig/lib/libconfig++.a /bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R2M2_base-efix014/gnu-linux/powerpc64-bgq-linux/lib/libstdc++.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R2M2_base-efix014/gnu-linux/powerpc64-bgq-linux/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/comm/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R2M2_base/gnu-linux/powerpc64-bgq-linux/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R2M2_base-efix014/gnu-linux/powerpc64-bgq-linux/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/comm/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R2M2_base/gnu-linux/powerpc64-bgq-linux/lib
/bgsys/drivers/toolchain/V1R2M2_base-efix014/gnu-linux/lib/gcc/powerpc64-bgq-linux/4.4.7/../../../../powerpc64-bgq-linux/bin/ld: attempted static link of dynamic object `/bgsys/drivers/V1R2M2/ppc64/comm/lib/libmpichcxx-gcc.so'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I did some search and found that, telling Makefile -Wl -Bstatic may solve this problem, but how exactly I should change this in my Makefile?
I tried searching -Wl in Makefile but it was not in the text.
Thanks,
Di
Looks like you are trying to build HDF5 with MPI support on BGQ.
As long as you end up passing a ".so" version of a lib to gcc on BGQ -- you will see this error. You may need to check how you are passing MPI info to HDF5's configure script.
In my case (building another project that uses CMake) passing BGQ's MPI compiler wrappers to CMake always created a problem where it would try to link MPI using the shared libs instead of the static ones. To resolve this, I had to make sure to explicitly specify the ".a" variants of the MPI libs.

linker --as-needed flag not pruning libraries

I'm running into an issue after upgrading gcc from 4.1.1 to 4.7.2. The problem is that the ld --as-needed flag is not pruning libraries that are not required if enough libraries with inter dependencies are listed.
For example, if I build a simple program that doesn't need any special libraries, but includes them on the build line, as such
gcc -m32 test.c -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/local/lib -lrt -lprojcommon -lproj -lrte -o test
then it builds fine and the --as-needed flag does it's job pruning out all of the listed libs that are not needed.
ldd test
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00bfc000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x001ac000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0018a000
However, if I add one more library (in this case crypto), then the build fails with undefined reference errors.
gcc -m32 test.c -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/local/lib -lcrypto -lrt -lprojcommon -lproj -lrte -o test
/usr/local/lib/librte.so: error: undefined reference to 'tla_decap_data'
/usr/local/lib/librte.so: error: undefined reference to 'do_db'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
This exact same build worked with 4.1.1, but started failing with 4.7.2.
This is part of a general build infra and libraries included on the build line are generic and expected to be pruned via --as-needed. I could fix this with --allow-shlib-undefined, but I'd prefer to find real unresolved symbols at build time. If I do set --allow-shlib-undefined, then I end up with the same set of required libs as the build that worked.
Any insight would be appreciated.

Compiling a dynamically linked library

I'm currently trying to compile a dynamically linked library (for a plugin system) using Windows and MinGW.
I compile each objects using this command line :
mingw-g++ -fPIC test.cpp
And the library using this line:
mingw-g++ -rdynamic -shared -Wl,-soname,test.so.1 -o test.so test.o
It doesn't work at all (using GCC with Linux, a similar line works though) : fPIC and rdynamic are ignored for some reason.
And while trying to make the library, it fails because the compiler try to link it with objects that are supposed to be resolved as I dynamically link it with the main binary.
So how do you compile this using MinGW?
Thanks :) !
-fPIC and -rdynamic are ignored because they are unused for Windows.
Also, .so is not the correct output extension for libraries on Windows.
To make a shared library for/on windows with GCC:
mingw-g++ -c file.cpp -o file.o
mingw-g++ -shared -Wl,--out-implib,libfile.a -o file.dll file.o
No more, no less.
And, documentation is always lovely to have: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/sampleDLL

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