usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l

Question

I\'m trying to compile my program and it returns this error :

usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l

in my makefile I use the c

Answer 1

I had this problem with compiling LXC on a fresh VM with Centos 7.8. I tried all the above and failed. Some suggested removing the -static flag from the compiler configuration but I didn't want to change anything.

The only thing that helped was to install glibc-static and retry. Hope that helps someone.