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

This is how I fixed it on ubuntu 11.10:

apt-get remove libc-dev

Say yes to remove all the packages but copy the list to reinstall after.

apt-get install libc-dev

Answer 2

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.