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

Take it:

    $ echo 'main(){puts("ok");}' > hello.c
    $ gcc -c hello.c -o hello.o
    
    $ ld hello.o -o hello.exe /usr/lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/crti.o /usr/lib/crtn.o \
-dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -lc
    
    $ ./hello.exe
    ok

Path to /usr/lib/crt*.o will when glibc configured with --prefix=/usr