Re: GCC Compiler can't seem to find linker

[Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 11:52 PM,  starz0rdesign wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm having a bit of an issue trying to compile LibArchive 3.3.1 for Windows.
> I have Mingw64 with GCC7.1 installed to prevent the Cygwin installer from
> linking it's DLL.

Maybe you should ask on the Mingw mailing list.

> At the end of the make process I seem to get this error:
> make  all-am
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/nobodyimportant/libarchive-3.3.1'
>   CCLD     libarchive.la

It would be helpful to show the full command line. Add V=1 to the make
invocation:

make V=1 (other make parameters, if any)

> C:/Program
> Files/mingw-w64/x86_64-7.1.0-posix-seh-rt_v5-rev0/mingw64/bin/../lib
> /gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/7.1.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
> cannot
>  find -link

This doesn't mean that the compiler didn't find the linker. This error
message means that the linker (ld.exe) didn't find a library, namely
libink.a



Csaba
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