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hai
I have installed Linux 7.0 on my system and i have an doubt the
linker
i ran simple hello.c program with gcc compiler
gcc -c hello.c
i want linker to produce the output
so i put on the command line as

ld first.o -lc

but it is not running ver properly
but there is an warning:
entry symbol _start not found
please rectify my error
i tried this option also
ld -o output /lib/crt1.o hello.o -lc
a waring comes " file format not recognized "
please rectify above errors
Thanx

You might try "gcc -v hello.c -o hello" to see if you can find out. The -v should make it output the command lines of all of the sub-processes.

Also rather than invoke ld directly, you probably can let gcc do it for you. Try:

gcc first.o -lc -o first