Linking a C program directly with ld fails with undefined reference to `__libc_csu_fini`

Question

I\'m trying to compile a C program under Linux. However, out of curiosity, I\'m trying to execute some steps by hand: I use:

• the gcc frontend to produce assemb

Answer 1

Assuming that a normal invocation of gcc -o hello hello.c produces a working build, run this command:

gcc --verbose -o hello hello.c

and gcc will tell you how it's linking things. That should give you a good idea of everything that you might need to account for in your link step.