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

Since you are doing the link process by hand, you are forgetting to link the C run time initializer, or whatever it is called.

To not get into the specifics of where and what you should link for you platform, after getting your intel asm file, use gcc to generate (compile and link) your executable.

simply doing gcc hello.c -o hello should work.